Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 17

Fionn saw that deed, and his blood may have been cold enough as he watched the great robber coursing the poets as a wild dog rages in a flock.

Who acts: Fionn, blood, great robber · What happens: see, be, watch, course · To what, where: deed, great robber, poets

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, blood, great robber), 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	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 deed	det
4	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cold	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cold	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 blood	nmod:poss
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cold	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 cold	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 cold	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 cold	cop
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	conj
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 cold	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 watched	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 watched	nsubj
16	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 robber	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 robber	amod
19	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 watched	obj
20	coursing	course	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 robber	acl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 poets	det
22	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 coursing	obj
23	as	as	ADP	_	27 rages	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 rages	det
25	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rages	amod
26	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rages	compound
27	rages	rage	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 coursing	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 flock	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 flock	det
30	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rages	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	Fionn	that deed		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deed=Stimulus
2	is	may · perfect	Fionn's blood		cold, enough property	tree rules
3	watch	past	Fionn	the great robber		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme
4	course	gerund	the great robber not said here	the poets	as a wild dog rages in a flock	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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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