Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 51

“You undertake that,” growled Cairell, and on the word he loosed a furious buffet at Con’an, which Cona’n returned with a fist so big that every part of Cairell’s face was hit with the one blow.

Who acts: You, Cairell, Cona’n · What happens: undertake, growl, loose, return, hit · To what, where: that, Cairell, furious buffet, word, Con’an, part

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Cairell, Cona’n), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 undertake	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 undertake	nsubj
3	undertake	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 undertake	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 undertake	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 undertake	punct
7	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 undertake	ccomp
8	Cairell	Cairell	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 growled	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 loosed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 loosed	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 word	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 word	det
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 loosed	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 loosed	nsubj
15	loosed	loose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 growled	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 buffet	det
17	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 buffet	amod
18	buffet	buffet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 loosed	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 Con’an	case
20	Con’an	Con'an	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 loosed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 returned	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 returned	obj
23	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 returned	nsubj
24	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Con’an	acl:relcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 fist	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fist	det
27	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 returned	obl
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 big	advmod
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fist	amod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 hit	mark
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 part	det
32	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hit	nsubj:pass
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 face	case
34	Cairell	Cairell	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 face	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 Cairell	case
36	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 part	nmod
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 hit	aux:pass
38	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 big	advcl
39	with	with	ADP	_	42 blow	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 blow	det
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 blow	compound
42	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hit	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 undertake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	undertake in a quote	present	You	that			tree rules
2	growl	past	You not said here	Cairell			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cairell=Topic
3	loose	past	Cairell	a furious buffet	the word	at Con’an	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent buffet=Patient
4	return	past	Cona’n	Con’an		with a fist	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
5	hit	past · passive		every part of Cairell's face		with the one blow	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with blow=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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