Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 91

But it was through fright the women died, for not one of them had a wound or a bruise or a mark.

Who acts: banquet, women, one · What happens: be, die, have · To what, where: fright, wound

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 (banquet, women, one), 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	_	5 fright	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fright	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fright	cop
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 fright	case
5	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 women	det
7	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 died	nsubj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fright	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 had	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nmod
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 died	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 wound	det
17	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 bruise	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bruise	det
20	bruise	bruise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wound	conj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 mark	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mark	det
23	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wound	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fright	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	banquet		fright	tree rules
2	die	past	the women	fright not said here		tree rules
3	have	past	one of people	a wound or a bruise or a mark		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient

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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