Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 14
But terror gripped with sudden fingers at Becfola’s heart.
Who acts: terror · What happens: grip · To what, where: heart
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terror), 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 | _ | 3 gripped | cc |
| 2 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gripped | nsubj |
| 3 | gripped | grip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 fingers | case |
| 5 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fingers | amod |
| 6 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gripped | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 heart | case |
| 8 | Becfola | Becfola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Becfola | case |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gripped | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grip | participle | terror | Becfola's heart | with sudden fingers | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with finger=Instrument |
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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