Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 22

And it was in those terms and in that tone that she spoke to Tuiren as they journeyed forward, so that the hound trembled and shrank, and whined pitifully and in despair.

Who acts: sweetheart, girl, terms, hound · What happens: be, speak, journey, tremble, shrink, whine · To what, where: terms, tone, Tuiren · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweetheart, girl, terms, hound), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 terms	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 terms	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 terms	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 terms	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 terms	det
6	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tone	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 tone	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 tone	det
10	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 terms	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 spoke	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spoke	nsubj
13	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tone	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Tuiren	case
15	Tuiren	Tuiren	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 spoke	obl
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 journeyed	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 journeyed	nsubj
18	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 spoke	advcl
19	forward	forward	ADV	_	18 journeyed	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 trembled	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 trembled	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 trembled	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hound	det
24	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 trembled	nsubj
25	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 journeyed	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shrank	cc
27	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 trembled	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 whined	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 whined	cc
30	whined	whine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 shrank	conj
31	pitifully	pitifully	ADV	_	30 whined	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 despair	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 despair	case
34	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pitifully	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 terms	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sweetheart			that terms and that tone		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	girl	that tone not said here	Tuiren			tree rules
3	journey	past	terms = term				forward property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tremble	past	the hound					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shrink	past	the hound not said here					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	whine	past	the hound not said here				pitifully property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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