Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 12

There was also the plunge and scurry of the deer, the yapping of badgers, and the whirr of birds driven into reluctant flight.

Who acts: plunge, deer, birds · What happens: be, drive, scurry, whirr · To what, where: whirr, reluctant flight

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plunge, deer, birds), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	also	also	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plunge	det
5	plunge	plunge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 scurry	cc
7	scurry	scurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plunge	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 deer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 deer	det
10	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scurry	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 yapping	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 yapping	det
13	yapping	yapping	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plunge	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 badgers	case
15	badgers	badger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 yapping	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 whirr	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 whirr	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 whirr	det
19	whirr	whirr	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 birds	case
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 whirr	nmod
22	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 whirr	acl
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 flight	case
24	reluctant	reluctant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 flight	amod
25	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 driven	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	the plunge and scurry of the deer and the yapping of badgers		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drive	participle		the whirr of birds not said here	reluctant flight	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into flight=Trajectory
3	scurry		the deer			nom scurry «act intransitive»: of=agent
4	whirr		birds			nom whirr «event intransitive»: of=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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