Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 18

He did not look at the hounds, but he stared like a young prince at Fionn and the champions as they rushed towards him scattering the pack with the butts of their spears.

Who acts: boy, hounds · What happens: not look, stare, rush, scatter · To what, where: pack

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 (boy, 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 look	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 look	advmod
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 hounds	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hounds	det
7	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stared	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 stared	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stared	nsubj
11	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 look	parataxis
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 prince	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 prince	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 prince	amod
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stared	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 Fionn	case
17	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 prince	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 champions	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 champions	det
20	champions	champion	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Fionn	conj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 rushed	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rushed	nsubj
23	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stared	advcl
24	towards	towards	SCONJ	_	26 scattering	mark
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 scattering	nsubj
26	scattering	scatter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 rushed	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pack	det
28	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 scattering	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 butts	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 butts	det
31	butts	butt	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 scattering	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 spears	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 spears	nmod:poss
34	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 butts	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not look	past · do-support	boy		at the hounds	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hound=Theme
2	stare	past	boy		like a young prince at Fionn and the champions	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	rush	past	hounds = hound			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	scatter	gerund	boy	the pack	with the butts of hounds's spears	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent pack=Destination with butt=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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