Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 17
He was not daunted by the terrible combat and clamour of the hounds.
Who acts: terrible combat, hounds · What happens: not daunt, clamour · To what, where: boy
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 (terrible combat, hounds), 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 | 4 daunted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 daunted | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 daunted | advmod |
| 4 | daunted | daunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 combat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 combat | det |
| 7 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 combat | amod |
| 8 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daunted | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 clamour | cc |
| 10 | clamour | clamour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 combat | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hounds | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hounds | det |
| 13 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 clamour | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 daunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not daunt | past · passive | the terrible combat and clamour of the hounds | boy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | clamour | the hounds | nom clamour «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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