Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 48

They went on, therefore, but in low spirits, and at last they saw the walls of the king’s castle towering before them, and a noble company going to and fro on the lawn.

Who acts: Mongan, castle, noble company · What happens: go on, see, tower, go, fro · To what, where: low spirits, walls, last, lawn

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, castle, noble company), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 therefore	punct
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spirits	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 spirits	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 spirits	case
9	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spirits	amod
10	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 saw	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 walls	det
18	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saw	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 castle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 castle	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 king	case
23	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walls	nmod
24	towering	tower	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 castle	acl
25	before	before	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 towering	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 company	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 company	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 company	det
30	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 company	amod
31	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
32	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 company	acl
33	to	to	ADP	_	32 going	fixed
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fro	cc
35	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 going	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 lawn	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 lawn	det
38	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fro	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	Mongan		low spirits		therefore property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spirit=Location
2	see	past	Mongan	the walls of the king's castle	last		a noble company obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wall=Stimulus
3	tower	gerund	the king's castle not said here			before Mongan		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location
4	go	gerund	a noble company not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fro	infinitive	a noble company not said here		the lawn			tree rules

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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