Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 3

When they reached Leinster the feast of Moy Life’ was being held, and they pushed on by forced marches and long stages so as to be in time, and thus they came to the Moy of Cell Camain, and they mixed with the crowd that were going to the feast.

Who acts: heart, crowd · What happens: reach, hold, push on, force, be, come · To what, where: feast, Leinster, Moy

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 (heart, crowd), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pushed	advcl
4	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 feast	det
6	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Moy	case
8	Moy	Moy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 held	obl
9	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Moy	flat
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 Moy	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 held	aux:pass
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 held	aux:pass
13	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 feast	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pushed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pushed	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pushed	nsubj
17	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 pushed	compound:prt
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 marches	case
20	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 marches	amod
21	marches	march	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pushed	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stages	cc
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stages	amod
24	stages	stage	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 marches	conj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 as	advmod
26	as	as	ADV	_	17 pushed	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	30 time	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 time	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 time	case
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pushed	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 came	cc
33	thus	thus	ADV	_	35 came	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pushed	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 Moy	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Moy	det
38	Moy	Moy	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 came	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Cell	case
40	Cell	Cell	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Moy	nmod
41	Camain	Camain	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Cell	flat
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 mixed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 mixed	cc
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 mixed	nsubj
45	mixed	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pushed	conj
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 crowd	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 crowd	det
48	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 mixed	obl
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 going	nsubj
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 going	aux
51	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 crowd	acl:relcl
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 feast	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 feast	det
54	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 going	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	heart	the feast	Leinster				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent leinster=Beneficiary feast=Theme
2	hold	past · passive		the feast not said here				of Moy	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»
3	push on	past	heart					by forced marches and long stages	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by march=Trajectory
4	force	participle							vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	to-infinitive	heart not said here				in time		tree rules
6	come	past	heart			the Moy of Cell		thus property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to moy=Initial_Location
7	mix	past	heart					with the crowd	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with crowd=Co-Patient
8	go	past · progressive	the crowd			the feast			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial_Location

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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