Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 7

There were young warriors with mantles of green and purple and red flying behind them on the breeze, and when these were not looking disdainfully on older soldiers it was because the older soldiers happened at the moment to be looking at them.

Who acts: young warriors, these, it · What happens: be, fly, not look, look · To what, where: breeze, older soldiers

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 warriors, these, it), 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 warriors	amod
4	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 mantles	case
6	mantles	mantle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 green	case
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mantles	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 purple	cc
10	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 green	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 red	cc
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 green	conj
13	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 red	advcl
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flying	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 breeze	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 breeze	det
18	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flying	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looking	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 looking	cc
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 looking	mark
22	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 looking	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 looking	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 looking	advmod
25	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 were	advcl
26	disdainfully	disdainfully	ADV	_	25 looking	advmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 soldiers	case
28	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 soldiers	amod
29	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 looking	obl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 happened	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 happened	cop
32	because	because	SCONJ	_	36 happened	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 soldiers	det
34	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 soldiers	amod
35	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 happened	nsubj
36	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 soldiers	acl:relcl
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 moment	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 moment	det
39	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 happened	obl
40	to	to	PART	_	42 looking	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 looking	aux
42	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 happened	advcl
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 looking	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	young warriors		there		with mantles of green	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	gerund	young warriors not said here		the breeze		behind warriors = warrior	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location
3	not look	past · progressive	these				on older soldiers; disdainfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on soldier=Theme
4	is	past	it	older soldiers not said here		moment	happen property	tree rules
5	look	to-infinitive · progressive					at warriors = warrior	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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