Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 30

The seven men and seven women of the Fairy Palace then took their places about him in a half-circle; his own seven guards sat behind them; his wife, the Flame Lady, sat by his side; and at the back of all Cairid, his story-teller sat, listening with all his ears, and remembering every word that was uttered.

Who acts: seven men, own seven guards · What happens: take, sit, listen, remember, utter · To what, where: places, half circle, wife, back, word

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 (seven men, own seven guards), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 men	nummod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 took	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 women	cc
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 women	nummod
6	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 men	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Palace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Palace	det
9	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Palace	compound
10	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 women	nmod
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 took	advmod
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 places	nmod:poss
14	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 took	obj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 places	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 circle	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 circle	det
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	21 circle	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 half	punct
21	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 sat	punct
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 guards	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 guards	amod
25	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 guards	nummod
26	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sat	nsubj
27	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	parataxis
28	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sat	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 wife	punct
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wife	nmod:poss
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sat	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Lady	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Lady	det
35	Flame	Flame	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Lady	compound
36	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 wife	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sat	punct
38	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sat	conj
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 side	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 side	nmod:poss
41	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sat	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 sat	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 sat	cc
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 back	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 back	det
46	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 sat	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 Cairid	case
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 Cairid	det
49	Cairid	Cairid	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 back	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 teller	punct
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 teller	nmod:poss
52	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 teller	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 story	punct
54	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 Cairid	appos
55	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 listening	punct
57	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 sat	advcl
58	with	with	ADP	_	61 ears	case
59	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	61 ears	det:predet
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 ears	nmod:poss
61	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 listening	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 remembering	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 remembering	cc
64	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 listening	conj
65	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	66 word	det
66	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 remembering	obj
67	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	69 uttered	nsubj
68	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 uttered	aux:pass
69	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	66 word	acl:relcl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the seven men and seven women of the Fairy Palace	men's places	a half circle	then	about banquet	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in circle=Location
2	sit	past	banquet's own seven guards	banquet's wife and the Flame Lady			behind men = man	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind they=Location
3	sit	past	banquet's own seven guards not said here				by banquet's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
4	sit	past	the seven men and seven women of the Fairy Palace not said here		the back of all Cairid			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=Location
5	listen	gerund	the seven men and seven women of the Fairy Palace not said here				with banquet's ears	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	remember	gerund	the seven men and seven women of the Fairy Palace not said here	every word				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme
7	utter speech: other	past · passive		every word				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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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