Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 14

Mac an Da’v opened it, and there was Tibraide, standing outside, and twenty-nine of his men were with him, and they were all laughing.

Who acts: Mac, men · What happens: open, be, stand, laugh · To what, where: Da’v, Tibraide

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mac, men), 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	Mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Da’v	det
3	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mac	appos
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 opened	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 was	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Tibraide	cop
10	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 standing	punct
12	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 opened	advcl
13	outside	outside	ADV	_	12 standing	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 nine	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 nine	cc
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 nine	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 twenty	punct
18	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 opened	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 men	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 men	nmod:poss
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 nine	nmod
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 him	cop
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 men	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 laughing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 laughing	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 laughing	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 laughing	aux
29	all	all	ADV	_	30 laughing	advmod
30	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 opened	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	Mac	Da’v = da'v	twenty nine of Mac's men obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	is a	past		Tibraide		tree rules
3	stand	gerund	Mac not said here		outside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past			with Tibraide	tree rules
5	laugh	past · progressive	men = man		all property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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