Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 24

The fawn turned and bounded towards the gate of the Dun, but the hounds that were by flew after her.”

Who acts: fawn · What happens: turn, bound, be · To what, where: hounds, gate

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fawn), 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 fawn	det
2	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bounded	cc
5	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bounded	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Dun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Dun	det
11	Dun	Dun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gate	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hounds	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 hounds	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hounds	det
15	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 flew	obj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 flew	cop
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 flew	mark
19	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hounds	acl:relcl
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flew	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 hounds	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the fawn	the hounds				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	bound	past	the fawn not said here		the gate of the Dun			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards gate=Destination
3	is	past				after fawn	fly property	tree rules

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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