Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 23

When they passed through the grove they saw a lovely house before them, built of mellow wood and with a roof of bronze--it was like the dwelling of a king, and over the windows of the Sunny Room there was a balcony.

Who acts: trees, house · What happens: pass, see, build, be · To what, where: grove, lovely house, windows

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, house), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 passed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 grove	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grove	det
6	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grove	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 built	punct
15	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 passed	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 wood	case
17	mellow	mellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wood	amod
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 roof	cc
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 roof	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 roof	det
22	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wood	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 bronze	case
24	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 roof	nmod
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 dwelling	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dwelling	cop
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 dwelling	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dwelling	det
30	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 king	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 king	det
33	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dwelling	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 windows	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 windows	cc
36	over	over	ADP	_	38 windows	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 windows	det
38	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dwelling	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 Room	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Room	det
41	Sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Room	amod
42	Room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 windows	nmod
43	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	44 was	expl
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dwelling	acl
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 balcony	det
46	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 was	nsubj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	trees = tree		the grove	before greatness		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through grove=Location
2	see	past	trees = tree	a lovely house				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus
3	build	participle	trees = tree not said here				of mellow wood and a roof of bronze	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is	past	house		the windows of the Sunny Room		like the dwelling; of a king	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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