Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 18

“Ah, my pulse and heart!” cried Fionn, and he strode a few paces to meet the great robber who had fostered him among the marshes.

Who acts: pulse, Fionn, great robber, my · What happens: cry, stride, meet, foster, pulse · To what, where: Fionn, few paces, great robber

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pulse, Fionn, great robber, my), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	10 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pulse	nmod:poss
5	pulse	pulse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 heart	cc
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulse	conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 heart	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 heart	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 strode	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 strode	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 strode	nsubj
15	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 paces	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 paces	amod
18	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 strode	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 meet	mark
20	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 strode	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 robber	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 robber	amod
23	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 meet	obj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 fostered	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fostered	aux
26	fostered	foster	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 robber	acl:relcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fostered	obj
28	among	among	ADP	_	30 marshes	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 marshes	det
30	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fostered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	my pulse and heart	Fionn		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fionn=Topic
2	stride	past	Fionn	a few paces		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pace=Trajectory
3	meet	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here	the great robber		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Co-Agent
4	foster	past · perfect	the great robber	Fionn	among the marshes	tree rules
5	pulse in a quote		my			nom pulse «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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