Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 10

Bands of boys who whispered mysteriously together and pointed with their fingers in every direction at once, and would suddenly begin to run like a herd of stampeded horses.

Who acts: boys, Bands · What happens: whisper, point, begin, run, stampede · To what, where: direction

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, Bands), 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	Bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 begin	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 boys	case
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bands	nmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 whispered	nsubj
5	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boys	acl:relcl
6	mysteriously	mysteriously	ADV	_	7 together	advmod
7	together	together	ADV	_	5 whispered	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pointed	cc
9	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 whispered	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 fingers	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fingers	nmod:poss
12	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 whispered	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 direction	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 direction	det
15	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whispered	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 whispered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 begin	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 begin	cc
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 begin	aux
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	22 begin	advmod
22	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	to	to	PART	_	24 run	mark
24	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begin	xcomp
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 herd	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 herd	det
27	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 run	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 horses	case
29	stampeded	stampede	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 horses	amod
30	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 herd	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	boys	every direction	with Bands's fingers; together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with finger=Theme
2	point	participle	boys not said here			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	would	Bands of boys		suddenly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	run	to-infinitive	Bands of boys not said here		like a herd of stampeded horses	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stampede	participle				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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