Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 6

They thrashed the pack severally and collectively until every hound in Fionn’s kennels knew that the little lad was their master, and that there was nothing in the world so sacred as he was.

Who acts: Bran, kennels, little lad, pack · What happens: thrash, know, be · To what, where: pack, master · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Bran, kennels, little lad, pack), 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	2 thrashed	nsubj
2	thrashed	thrash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pack	det
4	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thrashed	obj
5	severally	severally	ADV	_	2 thrashed	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 collectively	cc
7	collectively	collectively	ADV	_	5 severally	conj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 knew	mark
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 hound	det
10	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kennels	nmod:poss
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Fionn	case
12	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hound	nmod
13	’s	's	PART	_	10 hound	case
14	kennels	kennel	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thrashed	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 master	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lad	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lad	amod
19	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 master	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 master	cop
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 master	nmod:poss
22	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knew	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sacred	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sacred	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 was	mark
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sacred	cop
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 was	nsubj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nothing	nmod
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 sacred	advmod
33	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thrashed	parataxis
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 was	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 was	nsubj
36	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sacred	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thrashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	thrash	past	Bran	the pack	severally property	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Patient
2	know	past	every hound in Fionn's kennels			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	the little lad	Bran's master		tree rules
4	is	past			sacred property	tree rules
5	be	past	pack			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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