Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 11

“A dark stern man came often after us, and he used to speak with the deer.

Who acts: dark stern man, man · What happens: come, use, speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dark stern man, man), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
4	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	often	often	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 used	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 used	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 used	nsubj
13	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 speak	mark
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 used	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 deer	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 deer	det
18	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speak	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	a dark stern man	after us	often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use in a quote	past	man			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	speak speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here		with the deer	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with deer=Co-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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