Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 37

At the end of ten minutes all the sheep were lying on the ground, and the same bit was out of every sheep, and every sheep was dead.

Who acts: same bit, sheep · What happens: lie, be · To what, where: end

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same bit, sheep), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lying	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 minutes	case
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 end	nmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 sheep	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sheep	det
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 minutes	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lying	aux
11	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 ground	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sheep	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sheep	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bit	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bit	amod
19	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sheep	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sheep	cop
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 sheep	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 sheep	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 sheep	det
24	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lying	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dead	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dead	cc
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 sheep	det
28	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dead	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dead	cop
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lying	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive		at the end of ten minutes all sheep	on the ground	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location
2	is	past	the same bit		out every sheep	tree rules
3	is	past	every sheep		dead property	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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