Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 7

He was thinking in this way when mac an Da’v came towards him over the lawn, and he noticed that mac an Da’v was walking like an old man.

Who acts: pleasure, Da’v · What happens: think, mac, come, notice, walk · To what, where: way, lawn, mac · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (pleasure, Da’v), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	aux
3	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinking	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 mac	advmod
8	mac	mac	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Da’v	det
10	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	parataxis
12	towards	towards	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	obl
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 lawn	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lawn	det
16	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 noticed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 noticed	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 noticed	nsubj
20	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 mac	det
22	mac	mac	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 noticed	obj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Da’v	det
24	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 walking	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 walking	aux
26	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 noticed	ccomp
27	like	like	ADP	_	30 man	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 man	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 walking	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	pleasure		this way		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mac	gerund	a Da’v not said here				tree rules
3	come	past	a Da’v		the lawn	towards pleasure	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location over lawn=Destination
4	notice	past	pleasure	that mac			tree rules
5	walk	past · progressive	a Da’v			like a old man	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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