Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 28
The saint pushed his chair back hastily, and sat staring at his host, and as he stared the blood grew chill in his veins, and his hair crept along his scalp and stood on end.
Who acts: saint, blood, hair · What happens: push back, sit, stare, grow, creep, stand · To what, where: chair, scalp, end
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saint, blood, hair), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 saint | det |
| 2 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushed | nsubj |
| 3 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushed | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 pushed | advmod |
| 7 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 3 pushed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sat | cc |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pushed | parataxis |
| 11 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sat | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 host | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 host | nmod:poss |
| 14 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 staring | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stared | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stared | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 stared | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stared | nsubj |
| 19 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sat | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 blood | det |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stared | conj |
| 23 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 grew | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 veins | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 veins | nmod:poss |
| 26 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 chill | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 crept | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 crept | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hair | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 crept | nsubj |
| 31 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pushed | parataxis |
| 32 | along | along | ADP | _ | 34 scalp | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 scalp | nmod:poss |
| 34 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 crept | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 stood | cc |
| 36 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 crept | conj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 end | case |
| 38 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stood | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push back | past | the saint | saint's chair | hastily property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stare | gerund | at saint's host | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at host=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stare | past | saint | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | grow | past | the blood | chill property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | creep | past | saint's hair | saint's scalp | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along scalp=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | stand | past | saint's hair not said here | on end | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=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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