Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 20

I tried to follow her also, but I could not move, and I cried after her too, with rage and grief, until I could see her no more and hear her no more.

Who acts: I · What happens: try, follow, not move, cry, see, hear · To what, where: deer

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 follow	mark
4	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 follow	obj
6	also	also	ADV	_	4 follow	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 move	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 move	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 move	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 move	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 move	advmod
12	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 follow	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 cried	nsubj
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cried	obl
19	too	too	ADV	_	16 cried	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rage	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 rage	case
22	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cried	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grief	cc
24	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rage	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
26	until	until	SCONJ	_	29 see	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cried	parataxis
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	obj
31	no	no	ADV	_	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 see	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 hear	cc
34	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 see	conj
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hear	obj
36	no	no	ADV	_	37 more	advmod
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 hear	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	I				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	deer			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	not move	could	I				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	I		after deer	with rage and grief	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme
5	see	could	I	deer			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
6	hear	infinitive	I not said here	deer			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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