Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 4

Fionn would run his best to get away from that prickly stinger, but how he would run when it was his turn to deal the strokes!

Who acts: Fionn, stinger · What happens: run, get away, be, deal · To what, where: best, turn, strokes

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, stinger), 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	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 best	nmod:poss
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 run	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 run	advcl
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 stinger	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 stinger	det
11	prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stinger	amod
12	stinger	stinger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 away	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 run	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 run	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 run	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 run	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 run	aux
18	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 run	parataxis
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 turn	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 turn	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 turn	cop
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 turn	nmod:poss
23	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 run	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 deal	mark
25	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 turn	acl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 strokes	det
27	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 deal	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	would	Fionn	Fionn's best		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme good=Trajectory
2	get away	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here		away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run	would	Fionn			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	stinger	Fionn's turn		tree rules
5	deal	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here	the strokes		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=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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