Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 23

Panic swirled into the man from Faery; he turned from that terrible spot and fled, not knowing what might be behind, but dreading it as he had never before dreaded anything, and the unknown pursued him; that terrible defence became offence and hung to his heel as a wolf pads by the flank of a bull.

Who acts: Panic, unknown, terrible defence · What happens: swirl, turn, flee, not know, be, dread · To what, where: Panic, terrible spot, spot, anything, offence

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Panic, unknown, terrible defence), 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	Panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	nsubj
2	swirled	swirl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Panic	acl
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 man	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swirled	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Faery	case
7	Faery	Faery	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	nsubj
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 spot	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 spot	det
13	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spot	amod
14	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fled	cc
16	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knowing	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 knowing	advmod
19	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 fled	advcl
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 knowing	obj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 behind	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 behind	cop
23	behind	behind	ADV	_	20 what	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dreading	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 dreading	cc
26	dreading	dread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 knowing	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dreading	obj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 dreaded	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dreaded	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dreaded	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 before	advmod
32	before	before	ADV	_	33 dreaded	advmod
33	dreaded	dread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 dreading	advcl
34	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 dreaded	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 pursued	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 pursued	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 unknown	det
38	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 pursued	nsubj
39	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 pursued	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 became	punct
42	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 defence	det
43	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 defence	amod
44	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 became	nsubj
45	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	parataxis
46	offence	offence	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 became	xcomp
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 hung	cc
48	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 became	conj
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 heel	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 heel	nmod:poss
51	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hung	obl
52	as	as	ADP	_	55 pads	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 wolf	det
54	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 pads	compound
55	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 hung	obl
56	by	by	ADP	_	58 flank	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 flank	det
58	flank	flank	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hung	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 bull	case
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 bull	det
61	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 flank	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swirl	participle		Panic not said here		into the man from Faery	vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into man=Destination
2	turn	past	Panic		that terrible spot		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from spot=Trajectory
3	flee	past	Panic not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not know	gerund	Panic not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	is	might				behind property	tree rules
6	dread	gerund	Panic not said here	spot			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
7	dread	past · perfect	Panic	anything		before property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
8	pursue	past	the unknown	Panic			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
9	become	past	that terrible defence	offence			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
10	hang	past	that terrible defence not said here			to defence's heel; as wolf pads; by the flank of a bull	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by flank=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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