Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 12

They did their best under these observing eyes, and it was not long until he was invited to compete with them and show his mettle.

Who acts: Boys, happiness, hare · What happens: do, observe, not be, invite, compete, show · To what, where: best, observing eyes, hare, mettle

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boys, happiness, hare), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 best	nmod:poss
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 did	obj
5	under	under	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 eyes	det
7	observing	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 eyes	amod
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 long	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 long	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 long	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 long	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 did	conj
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 invited	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 invited	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 invited	aux:pass
18	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 long	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 compete	mark
20	compete	compete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 invited	xcomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 compete	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 show	cc
24	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 compete	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mettle	nmod:poss
26	mettle	mettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 show	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	Boys = boy	Boys's best	this observing eyes		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
2	observe	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	happiness			long property	tree rules
4	invite	past · passive		hare			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	compete not said to happen	to-infinitive	hare not said here			with Boys = boy	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent
6	show	infinitive	hare not said here	hare's mettle			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mettle=Recipient

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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