Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 54

Then Oscar himself leaped up, and with a hammer in either hand he went battering into the melee.

Who acts: Oscar · What happens: leap up, go, batter · To what, where: Oscar, melee

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 (Oscar), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 leaped	advmod
2	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 leaped	obl:unmarked
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 Oscar	nmod:unmarked
4	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 leaped	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hammer	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hammer	det
10	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hand	case
12	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	13 hand	det
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hammer	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaped	conj
16	battering	batter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 went	xcomp
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 melee	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 melee	det
19	melee	melee	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 battering	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leap up	participle		Oscar Oscar	then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	Oscar			with a hammer in either hand	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	batter	gerund	Oscar not said here			into the melee result	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into melee=Result

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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