Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 3

She sat hunched up against the wail, and as she looked like a bundle of rags they did not notice her.

Who acts: hag, rags · What happens: sit, hunch up, look, not notice · To what, where: wail, hag

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 (hag, rags), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hunched	hunch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	xcomp
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 hunched	compound:prt
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 wail	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wail	det
7	wail	wail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunched	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 looked	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 bundle	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bundle	det
15	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 rags	case
17	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bundle	nmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 notice	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 notice	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 notice	advmod
21	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 rags	acl:relcl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 notice	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	hag				tree rules
2	hunch up	participle	hag not said here		the wail		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against wail=Location
3	look	past	hag			like a bundle of rags	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	not notice	past · do-support	rags = rag	hag			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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