Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 11

There were men with carts full of roasted meats.

Who acts: men · What happens: be, roast

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 (men), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 carts	case
5	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	obl
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 carts	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 meats	case
8	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 meats	amod
9	meats	meat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	men			there		with carts	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roast	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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