Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 39

And so harshly did he speak, and with such a belligerent eye did he stare, that dismay began to seize on the champions, and even Fionn felt that his breath had halted.

Who acts: Cael, dismay, Fionn · What happens: speak, stare, begin, seize, feel, halt · To what, where: champions, breath · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cael, dismay, Fionn), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 speak	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 speak	advmod
3	harshly	harshly	ADV	_	6 speak	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 speak	nsubj
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stare	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stare	cc
9	with	with	SCONJ	_	14 did	mark
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 eye	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 eye	det
12	belligerent	belligerent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eye	compound
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stare	aux
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stare	nsubj
16	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 speak	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 dismay	det
19	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stare	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 seize	mark
22	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 champions	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 champions	det
25	champions	champion	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 seize	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 felt	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 felt	cc
28	even	even	ADV	_	30 felt	advmod
29	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 felt	nsubj
30	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 began	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 halted	mark
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 breath	nmod:poss
33	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 halted	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 halted	aux
35	halted	halt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 felt	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · do-support	Cael			harshly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stare	past · do-support	Cael				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	that dismay				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	seize	to-infinitive	that dismay not said here		the champions		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	feel	past	Fionn				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	halt	past · perfect · passive		Cael's breath			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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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