Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 18

And when his turn came, when they were all dead, and the grim, red-handed man trod at him, Fionn may have shivered, but he would have shown his teeth and laid roundly on the monster with his hands.

Who acts: turn, poets, grim handed man, Fionn · What happens: come, be, tread, shiver, show, lay · To what, where: Fionn, teeth

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 (turn, poets, grim handed man, Fionn), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 shivered	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 turn	nmod:poss
4	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 shivered	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dead	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 dead	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dead	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dead	cop
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 dead	advmod
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 trod	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 trod	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
15	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grim	punct
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 handed	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 red	punct
19	handed	handed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trod	nsubj
21	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 trod	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
25	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 shivered	nsubj:pass
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 shivered	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 shivered	aux
28	shivered	shiver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 shown	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 shown	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 shown	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 shown	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 shown	aux
34	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 shivered	parataxis
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 teeth	nmod:poss
36	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 shown	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 laid	cc
38	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 shown	conj
39	roundly	roundly	ADV	_	38 laid	advmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 monster	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 monster	det
42	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 laid	obl
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 hands	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 hands	nmod:poss
45	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 laid	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 shivered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Fionn's turn			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	poets = poet		all, dead property	tree rules
3	tread	past	the grim handed man		at Fionn	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory
4	shiver	may · perfect · passive		Fionn		tree rules
5	show	would · perfect	Fionn	Fionn's teeth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient
6	lay	past	Fionn not said here		on the monster; with Fionn's hands; roundly property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on monster=Destination

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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