Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 6

Just then they saw the Hag of the Mill coming out of the mill which was down the road a little.

Who acts: ways, Hag, mill · What happens: see, come out, be · To what, where: Hag, mill

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 (ways, Hag, mill), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 saw	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 saw	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Hag	det
6	Hag	Hag	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Mill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mill	det
9	Mill	Mill	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Hag	nmod
10	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 saw	xcomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 mill	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 mill	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mill	det
14	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coming	obl
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 road	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 road	cop
17	down	down	ADP	_	19 road	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 road	det
19	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mill	nmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 little	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 road	amod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	ways = way	the Hag of the Mill	then		tree rules
2	come out	gerund	the Hag of the Mill not said here	the mill			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mill=Result
3	is	past	the mill			down the road	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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