Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 32

The great door was swung wide, and two of his servants carried Finnian into the house, for the saint could no longer walk or stand upright by reason of the hunger and exposure to which he had submitted.

Who acts: two, saint, master · What happens: swing, carry, walk, stand, submit · To what, where: great door, Finnian, house

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 (two, saint, master), 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 door	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 door	amod
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swung	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swung	aux:pass
5	swung	swing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swung	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 carried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 carried	cc
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 carried	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 servants	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 servants	nmod:poss
12	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 two	nmod
13	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swung	conj
14	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 walk	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 walk	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 saint	det
21	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 walk	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 walk	aux
23	no	no	ADV	_	24 longer	advmod
24	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 walk	advmod
25	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 carried	advcl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 stand	cc
27	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 walk	conj
28	upright	upright	ADV	_	27 stand	advmod
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 reason	case
30	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stand	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 hunger	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hunger	det
33	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 reason	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 exposure	cc
35	exposure	exposure	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hunger	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 submitted	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 submitted	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 submitted	aux
40	submitted	submit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 exposure	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 swung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swing	past · passive		the great door		wide property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	carry	past	two of master's servants	Finnian	the house		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finnian=Theme
3	walk	could	the saint			long property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	infinitive	the saint not said here			by reason of the hunger and exposure; upright property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by reason=Location
5	submit	past · perfect	master			to exposure	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=Theme

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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