Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 44

The night was blacker than ever, but Andrew Coffey could see four men, and they were carrying between them a long box.

Who acts: night, Andrew, heavens · What happens: be, see, carry · To what, where: four men, long box

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, Andrew, heavens), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blacker	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blacker	cop
4	blacker	black	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 blacker	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 see	cc
9	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 see	nsubj
10	Coffey	Coffey	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Andrew	flat
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 blacker	parataxis
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 men	nummod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 see	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carrying	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 carrying	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carrying	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 carrying	aux
19	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 see	advcl
20	between	between	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carrying	obl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 box	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 box	amod
24	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carrying	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blacker	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the night		black property	tree rules
2	see	could	Andrew	four men		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	carry	past · progressive	heavens = heaven	a long box	between heels = heel	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=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: «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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