Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 3
It was now drawing towards evening, and a feast was prepared for the guests with a banquet to follow it.
Who acts: door · What happens: draw, prepare, follow · To what, where: feast, door
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drawing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drawing | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 drawing | advmod |
| 4 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 evening | case |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drawing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prepared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 prepared | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 feast | det |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 prepared | aux:pass |
| 12 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 drawing | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 guests | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 guests | det |
| 15 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 prepared | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 banquet | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 banquet | det |
| 18 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 guests | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 follow | mark |
| 20 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 prepared | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 follow | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drawing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · progressive | door | now; evening | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | prepare | past · passive | a feast | for the guests with a banquet | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for guest=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | door | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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