Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 13

But whatever way he talked the deer would draw away from him in dread, and he always left her at last furiously.”

Who acts: man, deer · What happens: talk, draw away, leave · To what, where: whatever, dread, deer, last

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, deer), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 talked	cc
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 talked	obj
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talked	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talked	nsubj
5	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deer	det
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 draw	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 draw	aux
9	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 talked	ccomp
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 draw	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 draw	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 dread	case
14	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 draw	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 left	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 left	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 left	nsubj
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 left	advmod
19	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talked	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 left	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 left	obl
23	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	19 left	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talked	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	past	man	whatever		way obl	tree rules
2	draw away	would	the deer		dread	from man; away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from he=Co-Patient
3	leave	past	man	deer	last	always, furiously property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme at last=Location

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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