Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 21
Just then Mongan glanced to the right whence the people were coming.
Who acts: Mongan, people · What happens: glance, come
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, people), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 glanced | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 glanced | advmod |
| 3 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 glanced | nsubj |
| 4 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 right | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 right | det |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 glanced | obl |
| 8 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 coming | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 coming | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 coming | aux |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 glanced | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glance | past | Mongan | then | to the right | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to right=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | the people | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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