Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 43

Tuiren then walked from the house with the messenger, but when they had gone a short distance Uct Dealv drew a hazel rod from beneath her cloak and struck it on the queen’s shoulder, and on the instant Tuiren’s figure trembled and quivered, and it began to whirl inwards and downwards, and she changed into the appearance of a hound.

Who acts: Tuiren, Iollan, short distance, rod, instant Tuiren · What happens: walk, go, draw, strike, tremble, quiver · To what, where: house, hazel rod, cloak, rod, figure, appearance

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuiren, Iollan, short distance, rod), 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	Tuiren	Tuiren	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 walked	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 walked	advmod
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 messenger	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 messenger	det
9	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gone	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 gone	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 gone	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gone	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	aux
15	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 walked	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 distance	det
17	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 distance	amod
18	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drew	nsubj
19	Uct	Uct	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 distance	appos
20	Dealv	Dealv	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Uct	flat
21	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rod	det
23	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rod	compound
24	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drew	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 cloak	case
26	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	28 cloak	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 cloak	nmod:poss
28	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drew	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 struck	cc
30	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 drew	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 struck	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	36 shoulder	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 queen	det
34	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shoulder	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 queen	case
36	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 struck	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 trembled	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 trembled	cc
39	on	on	ADP	_	44 figure	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Tuiren	det
41	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Tuiren	amod
42	Tuiren	Tuiren	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 figure	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 Tuiren	case
44	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 trembled	obl
45	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 quivered	cc
47	quivered	quiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 trembled	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 began	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 began	cc
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 began	nsubj
51	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 whirl	mark
53	whirl	whirl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 began	xcomp
54	inwards	inwards	ADV	_	53 whirl	advmod
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 downwards	cc
56	downwards	downwards	ADV	_	54 inwards	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 changed	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 changed	cc
59	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 changed	nsubj
60	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
61	into	into	ADP	_	63 appearance	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 appearance	det
63	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 changed	obl
64	of	of	ADP	_	66 hound	case
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 hound	det
66	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 appearance	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Tuiren		the house	then	with the messenger	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from house=Trajectory
2	go	past · perfect	Iollan					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	draw	past	a short distance	a hazel rod	distance's cloak			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent rod=Theme from cloak=Initial_Location
4	strike	past	a short distance not said here	rod			on the queen's shoulder	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Instrument on shoulder=Patient
5	tremble	past	Tuiren not said here		the instant Tuiren's figure			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on figure=Location
6	quiver	past	Tuiren not said here					vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	begin	past	rod					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	whirl	to-infinitive	rod not said here				inwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
9	change	past	Tuiren				into the appearance of a hound result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into appearance=Result
10	figure		the instant Tuiren					nom figure «communication 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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