Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 33
But his frame was tough as the unconquerable spirit that dwelt within it, and in no long time he was ready for whatever might come of dispute or anathema.
Who acts: frame, unconquerable spirit, master, whatever · What happens: be, dwell, come
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 (frame, unconquerable spirit, master, whatever), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 tough | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 frame | nmod:poss |
| 3 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tough | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tough | cop |
| 5 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 spirit | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spirit | det |
| 8 | unconquerable | unconquerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spirit | amod |
| 9 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tough | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 dwelt | nsubj |
| 11 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spirit | acl:relcl |
| 12 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dwelt | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ready | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ready | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 time | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ready | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ready | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ready | cop |
| 22 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tough | conj |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 24 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 come | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ready | xcomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 dispute | case |
| 28 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | obl |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 anathema | cc |
| 30 | anathema | anathema | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dispute | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | master's frame | as the unconquerable spirit; tough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | the unconquerable spirit | within frame | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | master | time | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come | might | whatever | of dispute or anathema | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of dispute=Initial_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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