Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 14

The messengers began to run through his tent at minute intervals calling “nothing,” “nothing,” “nothing,” as they paused and darted away.

Who acts: messengers, minute intervals · What happens: begin, run, call, pause, dart away · To what, where: tent, nothing · 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 (messengers, minute intervals), 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 messengers	det
2	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 run	mark
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 tent	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tent	nmod:poss
8	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 intervals	case
10	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 intervals	compound
11	intervals	interval	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 run	obl
12	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 intervals	acl
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 nothing	punct
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 calling	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 nothing	punct
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 began	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 nothing	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 nothing	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 nothing	punct
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 nothing	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 nothing	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 nothing	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 paused	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 paused	nsubj
27	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 darted	cc
29	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 paused	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 darted	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the messengers				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	run	to-infinitive	the messengers not said here		Fionn's tent	at minute intervals	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tent=Trajectory
3	call	gerund	minute intervals not said here	nothing			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient
4	pause	past	messengers = messenger				vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	dart away	past	messengers = messenger not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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