Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 3

Whenever he hunted he brought only the hounds that he trusted, Bran and Sceo’lan, Lomaire, Brod, and Lomlu; for if a fawn was chased each of these five great dogs would know if that was a fawn to be killed or one to be protected, and so there was small danger to Saeve and a small hope of finding her.

Who acts: Fionn, each, that, small danger, small hope · What happens: hunt, bring, trust, chase, know, be · To what, where: hounds, fawn, one, Saeve

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 (Fionn, each, that, small danger), 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	Whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 hunted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hunted	nsubj
3	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	advcl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brought	nsubj
5	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 hounds	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hounds	det
8	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brought	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 trusted	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 trusted	nsubj
11	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hounds	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Bran	punct
13	Bran	Bran	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hounds	appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Sceo’lan	cc
15	Sceo’lan	Sceo'lan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Bran	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Lomaire	punct
17	Lomaire	Lomaire	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Bran	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Brod	punct
19	Brod	Brod	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Bran	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Lomlu	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Lomlu	cc
22	Lomlu	Lomlu	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Bran	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 chased	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 chased	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 chased	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fawn	det
27	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 chased	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 chased	aux:pass
29	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 brought	parataxis
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	37 know	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 dogs	case
32	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 dogs	nsubj
33	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 dogs	nummod
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 dogs	amod
35	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 each	nmod
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 know	aux
37	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 chased	parataxis
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 fawn	mark
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 fawn	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 fawn	cop
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 fawn	det
42	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 know	ccomp
43	to	to	PART	_	45 killed	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 killed	aux:pass
45	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 fawn	acl
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 one	cc
47	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 killed	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	50 protected	mark
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 protected	aux:pass
50	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 one	acl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 was	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 was	cc
53	so	so	ADV	_	55 was	advmod
54	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	55 was	expl
55	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 fawn	parataxis
56	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 danger	amod
57	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 was	nsubj
58	to	to	ADP	_	59 Saeve	case
59	Saeve	Saeve	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 danger	nmod
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 hope	cc
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 hope	det
62	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 hope	amod
63	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 danger	conj
64	of	of	SCONJ	_	65 finding	mark
65	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	63 hope	acl
66	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 finding	obj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	Fionn				whenever property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	past	Fionn		the hounds			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hound=Destination
3	trust	past	Fionn	the hounds				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4	chase a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a fawn				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	know	would	each					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	that	a fawn				tree rules
7	kill	to-infinitive · passive	each not said here	one				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: one=Theme
8	protect	to-infinitive · passive						vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»
9	be	past	small danger to Saeve and a small hope			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	find	gerund	a small hope not said here	Saeve				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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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