Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 4

It is hard to tell how he ran or at what speed he ran, but he went forward in great two-legged jumps, and at times he moved in immense one-legged, mud-spattering hops, and at times again, with wide-stretched, far-flung, terrible-tramping, space-destroying legs he ran.

Who acts: Carl, speed · What happens: be, tell, run, go, move, spatter · To what, where: great legged jumps, times, immense legged spattering hops, terrible tramping, destroying legs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Carl, speed), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hard	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hard	cop
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hard	csubj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 ran	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 what	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ran	conj
12	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	nsubj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 what	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hard	conj
19	forward	forward	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	25 jumps	case
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 jumps	amod
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 legged	nummod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 two	punct
24	legged	legged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 jumps	amod
25	jumps	jump	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 went	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 times	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 times	cc
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 times	case
29	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hard	obl:unmarked
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 moved	nsubj
31	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 times	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	41 hops	case
33	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hops	amod
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 legged	nummod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 one	punct
36	legged	legged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hops	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 legged	punct
38	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spattering	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 mud	punct
40	spattering	spatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 hops	amod
41	hops	hop	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 moved	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 again	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 again	cc
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 times	case
45	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 again	obl:unmarked
46	again	again	ADV	_	31 moved	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 stretched	punct
48	with	with	SCONJ	_	51 stretched	mark
49	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 stretched	compound
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 wide	punct
51	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 moved	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 flung	punct
53	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 flung	advmod
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 far	punct
55	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 stretched	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 tramping	punct
57	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 tramping	amod
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	57 terrible	punct
59	tramping	tramping	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 flung	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 legs	punct
61	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 destroying	compound
62	-	-	PUNCT	_	61 space	punct
63	destroying	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	64 legs	amod
64	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 tramping	nmod
65	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 ran	nsubj
66	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 legs	acl:relcl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				time	hard property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	run	past	Carl					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run	past	speed					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past	Carl		great legged jumps		forward property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in jump=Location
6	move	past	Carl	times not said here	immense legged spattering hops	again		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent time=Theme
7	spatter	gerund						vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
8	stretch	participle	Carl not said here					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	fling	participle	Carl not said here	terrible tramping destroying legs			far property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	destroy	gerund						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
11	run	past	Carl	destroying legs not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme leg=Trajectory

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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