Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 12

Sometimes he talked gently and softly and coaxingly, but at times again he would shout loudly and in a harsh, angry voice.

Who acts: man · What happens: talk, shout

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 (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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 talked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 talked	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 softly	cc
6	softly	softly	ADV	_	4 gently	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 coaxingly	cc
8	coaxingly	coaxingly	ADV	_	4 gently	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shout	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 shout	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 times	case
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shout	advcl
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 times	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 shout	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 shout	aux
16	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 talked	conj
17	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	16 shout	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 voice	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	24 voice	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 voice	det
21	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 voice	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 harsh	punct
23	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 voice	amod
24	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 loudly	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	man					gently, sometimes property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shout speech: express	would	man					loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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