Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 41

He was tormented by the idea that some evil person might throw a stone at the hound, so he assembled his servants and retainers and addressed them.

Who acts: idea, evil person, dog · What happens: torment, throw, assemble, address · To what, where: dog, stone, servants, retainers

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 (idea, evil person, dog), 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	3 tormented	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tormented	aux:pass
3	tormented	torment	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 idea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 idea	det
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tormented	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 throw	mark
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 person	det
9	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 person	amod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throw	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 throw	aux
12	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tormented	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stone	det
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throw	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 hound	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hound	det
17	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throw	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 assembled	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 assembled	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 assembled	nsubj
21	assembled	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tormented	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 servants	nmod:poss
23	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 assembled	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 retainers	cc
25	retainers	retainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 servants	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 addressed	cc
27	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 assembled	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 addressed	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tormented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	torment	past · passive	the idea	dog		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	throw	might	some evil person	a stone	at the hound	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at hound=Destination
3	assemble	past	dog	dog's servants and retainers		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
4	address	past	dog not said here	retainers = retainer		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination

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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