Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 20

Mongan and his servant sat against a grassy hedge by the roadside and watched the multitude streaming past.

Who acts: Mongan · What happens: sit, watch, stream · To what, where: grassy hedge, multitude

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 (Mongan), 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 sat	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 servant	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 servant	nmod:poss
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mongan	conj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	against	against	ADP	_	9 hedge	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hedge	det
8	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hedge	amod
9	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 roadside	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 roadside	det
12	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 watched	cc
14	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 multitude	det
16	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watched	obj
17	streaming	stream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 watched	advcl
18	past	past	ADV	_	17 streaming	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Mongan and gathering's servant		a grassy hedge	by the roadside	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against hedge=Location
2	watch	past	Mongan and gathering's servant not said here	the multitude			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent multitude=Theme
3	stream	gerund	Mongan and gathering's servant not said here			past property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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