Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 1

It would be hard to tell of the terror that was in Fionn’s breast and in the hearts of the Fianna while they attended the conclusion of that race.

Who acts: terror, hearts · What happens: be, tell, attend, conclude · To what, where: breast, conclusion, race · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terror, hearts), 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	4 hard	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	cop
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	csubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 terror	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 terror	det
9	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 breast	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 breast	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 breast	case
13	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 breast	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Fionn	case
15	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 terror	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hearts	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 hearts	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hearts	det
19	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 breast	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Fianna	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Fianna	det
22	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 hearts	nmod
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 attended	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 attended	nsubj
25	attended	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 conclusion	det
27	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 attended	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 race	case
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 race	det
30	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 conclusion	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	would				hard property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive				of the terror	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the terror		Fionn's breast and the hearts of the Fianna		tree rules
4	attend	past	hearts = heart	the conclusion of that race			vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme conclusion=Goal
5	conclude			that race			nom conclusion «cognition 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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