Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 3

Mongan and Duv Laca used to play chess together, and then they would go out together to look at the cows, and then they would go in together and would talk to each other about the cows.

Who acts: Mongan, cows · What happens: use, play, go out, look, go in, talk · To what, where: chess

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, cows), 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	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 used	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Duv	cc
3	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mongan	conj
4	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Duv	flat
5	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 play	mark
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 used	xcomp
8	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 play	obj
9	together	together	ADV	_	7 play	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 go	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 go	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 used	conj
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	together	together	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 look	mark
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 cows	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cows	det
22	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 look	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 go	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 go	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 used	parataxis
29	in	in	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	together	together	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 talk	cc
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 talk	aux
33	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 each	case
35	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	33 talk	obl
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 each	fixed
37	about	about	ADP	_	39 cows	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cows	det
39	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 talk	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	Mongan and Duv				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	play	to-infinitive	Mongan and Duv not said here	chess		together property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=Theme
3	go out	would	cows = cow		then	out, together property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	to-infinitive	cows = cow not said here			at the cows	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cow=Theme
5	go in	would	cows = cow		then	together property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	talk	would	cows = cow not said here			to each; about the cows	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent about cow=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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