Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 13

Then they were led to the room where Duv Laca was, and as he went into that room Mongan shut his eyes, for he did not want to look at Duv Laca while other people might be looking at him.

Who acts: Duv, Mongan, other people · What happens: lead, go, shut, not want, look · To what, where: people, room, eyes

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duv, Mongan, other 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 led	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 led	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 led	aux:pass
4	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 was	advmod
9	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 was	nsubj
10	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Duv	flat
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 room	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shut	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shut	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 went	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 shut	advcl
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 room	det
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
20	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 shut	nsubj
21	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 led	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eyes	nmod:poss
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shut	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 want	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 want	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 want	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 want	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 want	advmod
29	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 shut	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 look	mark
31	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 want	xcomp
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 Duv	case
33	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 look	obl
34	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Duv	flat
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	40 looking	mark
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 people	amod
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 looking	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 looking	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 looking	aux
40	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 look	advcl
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 looking	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past · passive		people	the room	then		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to room=Destination
2	go	past	Duv		that room			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
3	shut	past	Mongan	Mongan's eyes				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	not want	past · do-support	Duv					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	Duv not said here				at Duv	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at duv=Theme
6	look	might · progressive	other people				at Mongan	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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