Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 5

There were young men and young girls, and when these were not holding each other’s hands it was because their arms were round each other’s necks.

Who acts: young men, these, concourse · What happens: be, not hold · To what, where: hands

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 (young men, these, concourse), 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	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 girls	cc
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girls	amod
7	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 men	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 necks	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 necks	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 holding	mark
11	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 holding	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 holding	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 holding	advmod
14	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 round	advcl
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hands	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 other	case
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 holding	obj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 round	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 round	cop
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 round	mark
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 arms	nmod:poss
23	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 round	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 round	cop
25	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 necks	amod
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 round	obl
28	’s	's	PART	_	25 round	case
29	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	young men and young girls		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not hold	past · progressive	these	each other's hands			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	is	past	concourse			each other obl; round property	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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