Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 2

One of them would take a thorn switch in her hand, and Fionn would take a thorn switch in his hand, and each would try to strike the other running round a tree.

Who acts: One, Fionn, each · What happens: take, try, strike, running · To what, where: thorn switch, hand, other

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, Fionn, each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:343): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 take	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 switch	det
7	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 switch	compound
8	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 take	cc
14	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 take	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 take	aux
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 switch	det
18	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 switch	compound
19	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 hand	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hand	nmod:poss
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 try	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 try	cc
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 try	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 try	aux
27	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 strike	mark
29	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 try	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 other	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 strike	obj
32	running	running	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 strike	advcl
33	round	round	ADP	_	35 tree	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 tree	det
35	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 running	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	would	One of women	a thorn switch	her hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent switch=Value in hand=Location
2	take	would	Fionn	a thorn switch	Fionn's hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent switch=Value in hand=Location
3	try	would	each				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	strike not said to happen	to-infinitive	each not said here	the other			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient
5	running	gerund	each not said here			round a tree	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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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