Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 43

He recited a list of calamities which would befall such a miscreant, and these woes began with flaying and ended with dismemberment, and had inside bits of such complicated and ingenious torment that the blood of the men who heard it ran chill in their veins, and the women of the household fainted where they stood.

Who acts: dog, calamities, woes, men, blood, women · What happens: recite, befall, begin, flay, end, have · To what, where: list, miscreant, bits, blood, chill, veins

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 (dog, calamities, woes, men), 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	2 recited	nsubj
2	recited	recite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 list	det
4	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recited	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 calamities	case
6	calamities	calamity	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 list	nmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 befall	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 befall	aux
9	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 calamities	acl:relcl
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 miscreant	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 miscreant	det
12	miscreant	miscreant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 befall	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
15	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 woes	det
16	woes	woe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 recited	parataxis
18	with	with	SCONJ	_	19 flaying	mark
19	flaying	flay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 began	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ended	cc
21	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 began	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 dismemberment	case
23	dismemberment	dismemberment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ended	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 recited	conj
27	inside	inside	ADP	_	28 bits	case
28	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	34 torment	case
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 torment	amod
31	complicated	complicated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 torment	amod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ingenious	cc
33	ingenious	ingenious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 complicated	conj
34	torment	torment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bits	nmod
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 ran	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 blood	det
37	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 ran	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 men	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 men	det
40	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 blood	nmod
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 heard	nsubj
42	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 men	acl:relcl
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 heard	obj
44	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 had	advcl
45	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 ran	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 veins	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 veins	nmod:poss
48	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 chill	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 fainted	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 fainted	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 women	det
52	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 fainted	nsubj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 household	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 household	det
55	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 women	nmod
56	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 recited	conj
57	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	59 stood	advmod
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 stood	nsubj
59	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 fainted	advcl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 recited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recite	past	dog	a list of calamities			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme
2	befall	would	calamities	such miscreant			tree rules
3	begin	past	this woes				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	flay	gerund	this woes not said here				tree rules
5	end	past	this woes not said here			with dismemberment	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with dismemberment=Subeventuality
6	have	past	dog not said here		bits of such complicated torment		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	hear	past	the men	blood			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
8	run	past	the blood of the men	chill	woes's veins		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location chill=Theme
9	faint	past	the women of the household				vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	stand	past	women = woman				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	list			calamities			nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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