Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 18

He caught up on the Carl at last, for the latter had stopped to eat blackberries from the bushes on the road, and when he drew nigh, Cael began to jeer and sneer angrily at the Carl.

Who acts: Cael, latter · What happens: catch up, stop, eat, draw, begin, jeer · To what, where: Carl, blackberries, bushes

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cael, latter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 caught	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 Carl	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Carl	det
6	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 caught	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stopped	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 stopped	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 latter	det
12	latter	latter	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stopped	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stopped	aux
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 caught	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stopped	xcomp
17	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eat	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 bushes	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bushes	det
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eat	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 road	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 road	det
23	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bushes	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 began	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 began	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 drew	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 drew	nsubj
28	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 began	advcl
29	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	28 drew	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drew	punct
31	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 began	nsubj
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 jeer	mark
34	jeer	jeer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sneer	cc
36	sneer	sneer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 jeer	conj
37	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	36 sneer	advmod
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 Carl	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Carl	det
40	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 sneer	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch up	past	Cael		the Carl	at last	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at last=Asset
2	stop	past · perfect	the latter				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	eat	to-infinitive	the latter not said here	blackberries	the bushes on the road		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackberry=Patient
4	draw	past	Cael			nigh property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	begin	past	Cael				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	jeer	to-infinitive	Cael not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sneer	infinitive	Cael not said here		the Carl	angrily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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