Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 6

The Carl stumped to a near-by wood, and he never rested until he had felled and tied together twenty-four couples of big timber.

Who acts: Carl · What happens: stump, not rest, fell, tie · To what, where: near wood, four couples

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Carl	det
2	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stumped	nsubj
3	stumped	stump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	9 wood	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wood	det
6	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wood	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 wood	punct
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 wood	case
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stumped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rested	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rested	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rested	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 rested	advmod
14	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stumped	conj
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 felled	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 felled	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 felled	aux
18	felled	fell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 rested	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tied	cc
20	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 felled	conj
21	together	together	ADV	_	24 four	advmod
22	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 four	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 twenty	punct
24	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 couples	nummod
25	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tied	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 timber	case
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 timber	amod
28	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 couples	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stump	past	the Carl		a near wood	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to wood=Destination
2	not rest	past	Carl			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fell	past · perfect	Carl			tree rules
4	tie	participle	Carl not said here	four couples of big timber		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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