Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 6

“Until the end of eternity,” he roared, “and until the very last moment of doom I will not move one foot in a race with this greasy, big-hoofed, ill-assembled resemblance of a beggarman.”

Who acts: Cael, Dear heart · What happens: roar, not move, hoof, assemble · To what, where: one foot, race · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cael, Dear heart), 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	_	10 roared	punct
2	Until	until	ADP	_	4 end	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roared	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 eternity	case
6	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 end	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 end	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 roared	nsubj
10	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 “	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 roared	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 moment	cc
14	until	until	ADP	_	18 moment	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 moment	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 last	advmod
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 moment	amod
18	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 “	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 doom	case
20	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 moment	nmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 move	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 move	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 move	advmod
24	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 moment	acl:relcl
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 foot	nummod
26	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 move	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 race	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 race	det
29	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 move	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	41 resemblance	case
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 resemblance	nsubj
32	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 resemblance	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 greasy	punct
34	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hoofed	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 big	punct
36	hoofed	hoof	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 resemblance	csubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 resemblance	punct
38	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 resemblance	amod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 ill	punct
40	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 resemblance	amod
41	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 race	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 beggarman	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 beggarman	det
44	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 resemblance	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 roared	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 roared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	roar	past	Cael			until the end of eternity	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	not move in a quote	future	Dear heart = heart	one foot	a race with greasy ill assembled resemblance of a beggarman		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
3	hoof in a quote	participle					tree rules
4	assemble in a quote	participle					vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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