Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 37

He shook the iron chain so that the servants and followers of the household should be silent, and he shook the silver one so that the nobles and poets should hearken also.

Who acts: crier, servants, nobles · What happens: shake, be, hearken · To what, where: iron chain, silver

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crier, servants, nobles), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shook	nsubj
2	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chain	det
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chain	compound
5	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shook	obj
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 silent	mark
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 silent	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 servants	det
9	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 silent	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 followers	cc
11	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 servants	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 household	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 household	det
14	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 servants	nmod
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 silent	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 silent	cop
17	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shook	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shook	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shook	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 shook	nsubj
21	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shook	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 silver	det
23	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shook	obj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 silver	flat
25	so	so	SCONJ	_	32 hearken	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 hearken	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 nobles	det
28	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hearken	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 poets	cc
30	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 nobles	conj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 hearken	aux
32	hearken	hearken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 shook	advcl
33	also	also	ADV	_	32 hearken	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shake	past	crier	the iron chain		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent chain=Patient
2	is	should	the servants of the household and followers		silent property	tree rules
3	shake	past	crier	the silver		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent silver=Patient
4	hearken	should	the nobles and poets			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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