Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 17

The man went away and Fergus was left alone with the hound, but the poor creature was so terrified that it began to tremble ten times worse than before.

Who acts: man, poor creature, creature · What happens: go away, leave, be, begin, tremble · To what, where: Fergus

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, poor creature, creature), 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	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 left	cc
6	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 left	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux:pass
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
9	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 left	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hound	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hound	det
12	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 terrified	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 terrified	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 creature	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 creature	amod
17	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 terrified	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 terrified	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 terrified	advmod
20	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 began	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 terrified	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 tremble	mark
25	tremble	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 times	nummod
27	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 worse	obl:unmarked
28	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 tremble	advmod
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 before	case
30	before	before	ADV	_	28 worse	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go away	past	the man		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past · passive		Fergus	with the hound; alone property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with hound=Theme
3	is	past	the poor creature		terrified property	tree rules
4	begin	past	creature			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	tremble	to-infinitive	creature not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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