Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 31

He got a grudging commendation from the terrible women when he was able to slip noiselessly in the tide, swim under water to where a wild duck was floating and grip it by the leg.

Who acts: Fionn, wild duck · What happens: get, be, slip, swim, float, grip · To what, where: grudging commendation, water, duck

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 (Fionn, wild duck), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 commendation	det
4	grudging	grudging	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 commendation	compound
5	commendation	commendation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 women	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 women	det
8	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 women	amod
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 able	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 able	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 able	cop
13	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 slip	mark
15	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 able	xcomp
16	noiselessly	noiselessly	ADV	_	15 slip	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 tide	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tide	det
19	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 slip	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 swim	punct
21	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 slip	conj
22	under	under	ADP	_	23 water	case
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swim	obl
24	to	to	SCONJ	_	30 floating	mark
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 floating	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 duck	det
27	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 duck	amod
28	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 floating	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 floating	aux
30	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 swim	advcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 grip	cc
32	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 floating	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 grip	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 leg	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 leg	det
36	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grip	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	Fionn	a grudging commendation		from the terrible women	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent commendation=Theme from woman=Source
2	is	past	Fionn			able property	tree rules
3	slip	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here			in the tide; noiselessly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tide=Attribute
4	swim	infinitive	Fionn not said here		water		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Trajectory
5	float	past · progressive	a wild duck				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	grip	present	a wild duck not said here	duck		by the leg	vn touch-20-1 «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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