Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 6
There were old, lusty women going by, and when these were not talking together it was because their mouths were mutually filled with apples and meat-pies.
Who acts: old lusty women, these · What happens: be, go by, not talk, fill · To what, where: concourse
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 (old lusty women, these), 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 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 women | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 old | punct |
| 5 | lusty | lusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 women | amod |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 women | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 going | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 filled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 filled | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 talking | advmod |
| 12 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 talking | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 talking | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 talking | advmod |
| 15 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 filled | advcl |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 talking | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 filled | aux:pass |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 filled | mark |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 filled | aux:pass |
| 23 | mutually | mutually | ADV | _ | 24 filled | advmod |
| 24 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 were | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 apples | case |
| 26 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 filled | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pies | cc |
| 28 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pies | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 meat | punct |
| 30 | pies | pie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 apples | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | old lusty women | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go by | gerund | old lusty women not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not talk | past · progressive | these | together property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fill | past · passive | concourse | with apples and meat pies; mutually property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with apple=Instrument |
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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