Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 5

Fionn loved a chase at any hour, and, with Bran and Sceo’lan, he outstripped the men and dogs of his troop, until nothing remained in the limpid world but Fionn, the two hounds, and the nimble, beautiful fawn.

Who acts: Fionn, chase · What happens: love, outstrip, remain · To what, where: chase, men, limpid world

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, chase), 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	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chase	det
4	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 hour	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 outstripped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 outstripped	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 Bran	case
12	Bran	Bran	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 outstripped	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Sceo’lan	cc
14	Sceo’lan	Sceo'lan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Bran	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Bran	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 outstripped	nsubj
17	outstripped	outstrip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loved	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 men	det
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 outstripped	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dogs	cc
21	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 men	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 troop	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 troop	nmod:poss
24	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dogs	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 nothing	punct
26	until	until	ADP	_	27 nothing	case
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 outstripped	parataxis
28	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 nothing	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
31	limpid	limpid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 world	amod
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 remained	obl
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 Fionn	cc
34	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 nothing	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hounds	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hounds	det
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 hounds	nummod
38	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 Fionn	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 fawn	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 fawn	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 fawn	det
42	nimble	nimble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 fawn	amod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 nimble	punct
44	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 fawn	amod
45	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 outstripped	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	Fionn	a chase		hour		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chase=Stimulus
2	outstrip	past	chase	the men and dogs of chase's troop			with Bran and Sceo’lan; the nimble beautiful fawn obl	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme
3	remain	participle			the limpid world			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=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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