Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 15

He came down from the window and walked on the sunny lawn among the cows, looking at each of them and speaking words of affection and endearment to them all; and while he was thus walking and talking and looking and loving, he noticed that some one was moving beside him.

Who acts: Mongan, one · What happens: come down, walk, look, speak, talk, notice · To what, where: window, sunny lawn, words, cows, affection · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walked	cc
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 lawn	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lawn	det
11	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lawn	amod
12	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walked	obl
13	among	among	ADP	_	15 cows	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cows	det
15	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 walked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looking	punct
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 walked	advcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 each	case
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 looking	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 each	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 speaking	cc
23	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 looking	conj
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 speaking	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 affection	case
26	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 words	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 endearment	cc
28	endearment	endearment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 affection	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 speaking	obl
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 them	nmod:unmarked
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 noticed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 noticed	cc
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 walking	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 walking	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 walking	aux
37	thus	thus	ADV	_	38 walking	advmod
38	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 noticed	advcl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 talking	cc
40	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 walking	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 looking	cc
42	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 walking	conj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 loving	cc
44	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 looking	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 walking	punct
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 noticed	nsubj
47	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 moving	mark
49	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	50 one	det
50	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 moving	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 moving	aux
52	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 noticed	advcl
53	beside	beside	ADP	_	54 him	case
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 moving	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come down	past	Mongan			the window	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from window=Initial_Location
2	walk	past	Mongan not said here			the sunny lawn	among the cows	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lawn=Trajectory
3	look	gerund	Mongan not said here				at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
4	speak speech: other	gerund	Mongan not said here	words of affection and endearment	cows = cow			tree rules
5	walk	past · progressive	Mongan				thus property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	talk	gerund	Mongan not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	look	gerund	Mongan not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	notice	past	Mongan					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	move	past · progressive	some one				beside Mongan	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme beside he=Trajectory
10	word			affection and endearment				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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