Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 2

He fasted on the gentleman, and he did so to such purpose that he was admitted to the house; for to an hospitable heart the idea that a stranger may expire on your doorstep from sheer famine cannot be tolerated.

Who acts: person, stranger · What happens: fast, do, admit, expire, not tolerate · To what, where: person, house, heart idea, doorstep

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 (person, stranger), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fasted	nsubj
2	fasted	fast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 gentleman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gentleman	det
5	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fasted	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 did	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fasted	conj
10	so	so	ADV	_	9 did	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 purpose	case
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 purpose	amod
13	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 admitted	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 admitted	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 admitted	aux:pass
17	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 did	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 house	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 admitted	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 idea	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	26 heart	case
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 heart	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 heart	det
25	hospitable	hospitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 heart	amod
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 idea	compound
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 idea	det
28	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 tolerated	nsubj:pass
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 expire	mark
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 stranger	det
31	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 expire	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 expire	aux
33	expire	expire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 idea	acl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 doorstep	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 doorstep	nmod:poss
36	doorstep	doorstep	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 expire	obl
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 famine	case
38	sheer	sheer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 famine	amod
39	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 expire	obl
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 tolerated	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 tolerated	advmod
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 tolerated	aux:pass
43	tolerated	tolerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fasted	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fast	past	person				on the gentleman	tree rules
2	do	past	person				to such purpose	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	admit speech: other	past · passive		person	the house			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to house=Recipient
4	expire	may	a stranger	the heart idea not said here		your doorstep	from sheer famine	tree rules
5	not tolerate	can · passive		the heart idea				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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