Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 11

They were bristling and terrible, and each bite from those great, keen jaws was woe to the beast that received it.

Who acts: hounds, bite, beast · What happens: bristle, be, receive · To what, where: woe, bite

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hounds, bite, beast), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bristling	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bristling	aux
3	bristling	bristle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 terrible	cc
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bristling	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 woe	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 woe	cc
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 bite	det
9	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 woe	nsubj
10	from	from	ADP	_	15 jaws	case
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 jaws	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 jaws	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 great	punct
14	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 jaws	amod
15	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bite	nmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 woe	cop
17	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bristling	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 beast	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beast	det
20	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 woe	nmod
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 received	nsubj
22	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 beast	acl:relcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 received	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bristling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bristle	past · progressive	hounds = hound			vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
2	is a	past	each bite from that great keen jaws	woe	to the beast	tree rules
3	receive	past	the beast	bite		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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