Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 52

“Who are you at all?” he cried, starting back from the chessboard and staring on Fionn.

Who acts: subject · What happens: cry, start back, stare · To what, where: chessboard

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 (subject), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 all	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 all	cop
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 all	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 cried	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 all	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 all	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 starting	punct
12	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cried	advcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 starting	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 chessboard	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chessboard	det
16	chessboard	chessboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 starting	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 staring	cc
18	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 starting	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 Fionn	case
20	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 staring	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	subject			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	start back	gerund	subject not said here	the chessboard		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	stare	gerund	subject not said here		on Fionn	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on fionn=Theme

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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