Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 17

He stayed with these lads for some time, and it may be that they idolised him at first, for it is the way with boys to be astounded and enraptured by feats; but in the end, and that was inevitable, they grew jealous of the stranger.

Who acts: name, life, that, lads · What happens: stay, be, astound, enrapture, grow · To what, where: end

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 (name, life, that, lads), 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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 lads	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 lads	det
5	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stayed	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 idolised	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 idolised	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 idolised	nsubj:outer
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 idolised	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 idolised	cop
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 idolised	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 idolised	nsubj
16	idolised	idolis	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 idolised	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 first	case
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 idolised	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 way	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	25 way	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 way	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 way	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 way	det
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 idolised	parataxis
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 boys	case
27	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 way	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	30 astounded	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 astounded	aux:pass
30	astounded	astound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 way	acl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 enraptured	cc
32	enraptured	enrapture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 astounded	conj
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 feats	case
34	feats	feat	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 enraptured	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 grew	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 grew	cc
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 end	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 end	det
39	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 grew	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 inevitable	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 inevitable	cc
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 inevitable	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 inevitable	cop
44	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 end	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 end	punct
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 grew	nsubj
47	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	conj
48	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 grew	xcomp
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 stranger	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 stranger	det
51	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 jealous	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	name	time	with this lads	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with lad=Location
2	is	may	life		idolis property	tree rules
3	is	present	life		for the way; with boys	tree rules
4	astound	to-infinitive · passive	life not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5	enrapture	participle	life not said here		by feats	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	that		inevitable property	tree rules
7	grow	past	lads = lad	in the end	jealous property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in end=Location

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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