Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 9

The instant they stepped they stood, bewildered, looking at each other silently, questioningly, and then with one accord they turned to look back whence they had come.

Who acts: instant, Mongan · What happens: step, stand, bewilder, look, turn, look back

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 (instant, Mongan), 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	2 instant	det
2	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stepped	nsubj
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stepped	nsubj
4	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stepped	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bewildered	punct
8	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stepped	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looking	punct
10	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 bewildered	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 looking	obl
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	silently	silently	ADV	_	10 looking	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 questioningly	punct
16	questioningly	questioningly	ADV	_	10 looking	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 turned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 turned	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 turned	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 accord	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 accord	nummod
22	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 turned	nsubj
24	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stepped	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 look	mark
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 turned	xcomp
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 look	advmod
28	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	31 come	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 look	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	step	past	the instant			tree rules
2	stand	past	Mongan			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bewilder	past	the instant not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	look	gerund	the instant not said here		at each; questioningly, silently property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
5	turn	past	Mongan	then	with one accord	tree rules
6	look back	to-infinitive	Mongan not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	come	past · perfect	Mongan		whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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