Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 94

Away they went, through bogs, up hills, down dales, and sometimes along the yellow high road, till they came to the hall-door of the Lord of Dunlavin, and who should be there, airing his powdered head, his white stockings, and his red breeches, but the thief of a porter.

Who acts: comrades · What happens: go, come, be, air, powder · To what, where: red breeches, bogs, hall door, powdered head

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 (comrades), 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	Away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bogs	punct
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 bogs	case
6	bogs	bog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hills	punct
8	up	up	ADV	_	9 hills	advmod
9	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bogs	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dales	punct
11	down	down	ADP	_	12 dales	case
12	dales	dale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 road	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 road	cc
15	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 road	advmod
16	along	along	ADP	_	20 road	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 road	det
18	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 road	amod
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 road	amod
20	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 came	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	29 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
27	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 door	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 hall	punct
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Lord	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Lord	det
32	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 door	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Dunlavin	case
34	Dunlavin	Dunlavin	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Lord	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 there	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 there	cc
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 there	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 there	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 there	cop
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 came	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 airing	punct
42	airing	air	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 came	advcl
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 head	nmod:poss
44	powdered	powder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 head	amod
45	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 airing	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 stockings	punct
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 stockings	nmod:poss
48	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 stockings	amod
49	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 head	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 breeches	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 breeches	cc
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 breeches	nmod:poss
53	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 breeches	amod
54	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 thief	punct
56	but	but	CCONJ	_	58 thief	cc
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 thief	det
58	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 porter	case
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 porter	det
61	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 thief	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	comrades = comrade	Dunlavin's red breeches	bogs and hills	down dales; along the yellow high road; the thief of a porter obl; away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through bog=Initial_Location down dale=Destination
2	come	past	comrades = comrade		the hall door of the Lord of Dunlavin		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
3	is	should				there property	tree rules
4	air	gerund	comrades = comrade not said here	Dunlavin's powdered head and Dunlavin's white stockings			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	powder	participle					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «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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