Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 22

Cael began to race then, and he was glad of the start, for his antagonist made so little account of him that he did not know what to expect when the Carl would begin to run.

Who acts: Cael, antagonist, Carl · What happens: begin, race, be, make, not know, expect · To what, where: little account, Cael

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cael, antagonist, Carl), 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	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 race	mark
4	race	race	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 race	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 glad	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 glad	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 glad	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 glad	cop
10	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 began	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 start	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 start	det
13	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glad	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 made	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 antagonist	nmod:poss
17	antagonist	antagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 little	advmod
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 account	amod
21	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 account	nmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 know	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 know	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 know	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 know	advmod
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 made	advcl
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 expect	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 expect	mark
31	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 know	advcl
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 begin	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Carl	det
34	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 begin	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 begin	aux
36	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 expect	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 run	mark
38	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 begin	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Cael				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	race	to-infinitive	Cael not said here		then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Cael			of the start; glad property	tree rules
4	make	past	Cael's antagonist	little account of Cael			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset account=Product
5	not know	past · do-support	antagonist				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	expect	to-infinitive	antagonist not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
7	begin	would	the Carl				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	run	to-infinitive	the Carl not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	account			Cael			nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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