Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 26

The others ran after deer, using the speed of their legs, the noses of their dogs and a thousand well-worn tricks to bring them within reach, and, often enough, the animal escaped them.

Who acts: others, animal · What happens: run, use, bring, escape · To what, where: noses, speed, others

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 (others, animal), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 deer	case
5	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 using	punct
7	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 speed	det
9	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 using	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 legs	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 legs	nmod:poss
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 speed	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 noses	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 noses	det
15	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ran	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 dogs	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 dogs	nmod:poss
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 noses	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tricks	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thousand	det
21	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 tricks	nummod
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 worn	advmod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 well	punct
24	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tricks	amod
25	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dogs	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 bring	mark
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ran	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bring	obj
29	within	within	ADP	_	30 reach	case
30	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 escaped	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 escaped	cc
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 and	punct
34	often	often	ADV	_	39 escaped	advmod
35	enough	enough	ADV	_	34 often	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 often	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 animal	det
38	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 escaped	nsubj
39	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 escaped	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the others	the noses of others's dogs and thousand worn tricks	after deer		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	gerund	the others not said here	the speed of others's legs			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=Patient
3	bring	to-infinitive	the others not said here	others = other		within reach	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	escape	past	the animal	others = other		often property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Initial_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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