Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 36

The young man came forward then, greater-shouldered than any mighty man of that gathering, longer and cleaner limbed, with his fair curls dancing about his beardless face.

Who acts: young man, cleaner, fair curls · What happens: come forward, shoulder, limb, dance · To what, where: greater

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, cleaner, fair curls), 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	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forward	forward	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shouldered	punct
8	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 shouldered	nsubj:pass
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 greater	punct
10	shouldered	shoulder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	parataxis
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 man	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 man	det
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shouldered	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 gathering	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 gathering	det
17	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 longer	punct
19	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 gathering	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 limbed	cc
21	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 limbed	nsubj
22	limbed	limb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 longer	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dancing	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	28 dancing	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 curls	nmod:poss
26	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 curls	amod
27	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dancing	nsubj
28	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 shouldered	conj
29	about	about	ADP	_	32 face	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 face	nmod:poss
31	beardless	beardless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 face	amod
32	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dancing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come forward	past	the young man		then	forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shoulder	participle · passive		greater		than any mighty man of that gathering	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	limb	past	cleaner				tree rules
4	dance	gerund	cleaner's fair curls			about cleaner's beardless face	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about face=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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