Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 1

THEY sat in a place where they could watch the castle and compose themselves after their journey.

Who acts: THEY, their · What happens: sit, watch, compose, journey · To what, where: place, castle, themselves

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (THEY, their), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 place	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 watch	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 watch	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 watch	aux
9	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 place	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 castle	det
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watch	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 compose	cc
13	compose	compose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 watch	conj
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 compose	obj
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 journey	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 journey	nmod:poss
17	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 compose	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past	THEY		a place		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
2	watch	could	they	the castle			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
3	compose	infinitive	they not said here	themselves = they		after their journey	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Result
4	journey		their = they				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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