Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 1

A year passed, and one day as he was sitting at judgement there came a great noise from without, and this noise was so persistent that the people and suitors were scandalised, and Fiachna at last ordered that the noisy person should be brought before him to be judged.

Who acts: he, one day, noise, Fiachna · What happens: pass, sit, come, be, scandalis, order · To what, where: one day, judgement, great noise, people, noisy person, person

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, one day, noise, Fiachna), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl:unmarked
3	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 sitting	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sitting	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sitting	aux
11	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 day	acl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 judgement	case
13	judgement	judgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 judgement	advmod
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 noise	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 noise	amod
18	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	18 noise	nmod
20	without	without	ADP	_	19 from	fixed
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 persistent	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 persistent	cc
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 noise	det
24	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 persistent	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 persistent	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 persistent	advmod
27	persistent	persistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 came	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 scandalised	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 people	det
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 scandalised	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 suitors	cc
32	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 people	conj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 scandalised	aux:pass
34	scandalised	scandalis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 persistent	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 ordered	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 ordered	cc
37	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 ordered	nsubj
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 last	case
39	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Fiachna	nmod
40	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	advcl
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 brought	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 person	det
43	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 person	amod
44	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 brought	nsubj:pass
45	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 brought	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 brought	aux:pass
47	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 ordered	ccomp
48	before	before	SCONJ	_	52 judged	mark
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 judged	nsubj:pass
50	to	to	PART	_	52 judged	mark
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 judged	aux:pass
52	judged	judge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 brought	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	participle				year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past · progressive	he	one day not said here	judgement			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent day=Theme at judgement=Location
3	come	past	one day	a great noise				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location noise=Theme
4	is	past	this noise				persistent property	tree rules
5	scandalis	past · passive		the people and suitors				tree rules
6	order	past	Fiachna at last					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	bring	should · passive		the noisy person				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
8	judge	to-infinitive · passive		person				vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value

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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