Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 5

When he was with the pack these five were with him, and woeful indeed was the eye they turned on their comrades when these pushed too closely or were not properly humble.

Who acts: boy, pack, Bran · What happens: be, turn, push, not be · To what, where: eye, comrades, these

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, pack, Bran), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 pack	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pack	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pack	cop
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 pack	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pack	det
6	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eye	nsubj
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 five	det
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 pack	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 him	cop
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 five	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 woeful	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 woeful	cc
14	woeful	woeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pack	conj
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	14 woeful	advmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 eye	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eye	det
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 turned	nsubj
20	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 eye	acl:relcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 comrades	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 comrades	nmod:poss
23	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turned	obl
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 pushed	mark
25	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 pushed	nsubj:pass
26	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 turned	ccomp
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 closely	advmod
28	closely	closely	ADV	_	26 pushed	advmod
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 humble	cc
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 humble	cop
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 humble	advmod
32	properly	properly	ADV	_	33 humble	advmod
33	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pushed	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 eye	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	boy			with the pack; this five nmod	tree rules
2	is	past				with pack	tree rules
3	be		boy not said here			indeed property	tree rules
4	is a	past	the pack	the eye			tree rules
5	turn	past	Bran	the eye not said here	Bran's comrades		tree rules
6	push	participle · passive		these		closely property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	not is	past				humble, properly 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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