Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 51

So they crept near the window, and there they saw six robbers inside, with pistols, and blunderbushes, and cutlashes, sitting at a table, eating roast beef and pork, and drinking mulled beer, and wine, and whisky punch.

Who acts: people · What happens: creep, see, blunderbush, sit, eat, mull · To what, where: cutlashes, window, six robbers, table, roast beef

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 crept	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crept	nsubj
3	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crept	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 saw	expl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	parataxis
12	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 robbers	nummod
13	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saw	obj
14	inside	inside	ADV	_	13 robbers	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pistols	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 pistols	case
17	pistols	pistol	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saw	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 blunderbushes	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 blunderbushes	cc
20	blunderbushes	blunderbush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cutlashes	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cutlashes	cc
23	cutlashes	cutlash	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crept	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sitting	punct
25	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 crept	advcl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 table	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 table	det
28	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sitting	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eating	punct
30	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 sitting	conj
31	roast	roast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 beef	amod
32	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eating	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pork	cc
34	pork	pork	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 beef	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 beer	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 beer	cc
37	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 beer	compound
38	mulled	mull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 beer	amod
39	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crept	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 wine	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 wine	cc
42	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crept	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 punch	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 punch	cc
45	whisky	whisky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 punch	amod
46	punch	punch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crept	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	creep	past	people	cutlashes	the window	drinking mulled beer obl; wine obl; whisky punch obl	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near window=Trajectory
2	see	past	people	six robbers	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer robber=Stimulus
3	blunderbush	present	people not said here				tree rules
4	sit	gerund	people not said here		a table		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
5	eat	gerund	people not said here	roast beef and pork			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beef=Patient
6	mull	participle					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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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