Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 3

Such a soldier was he that, single-handed, he could take the Fianna out of any hole they got into, but such an inveterate poet was he that all the Fianna together could scarcely retrieve him from the abysses into which he tumbled.

Who acts: soldier, Fionn, they, inveterate poet · What happens: be, hand, take, get, tumble · To what, where: that, Fianna, hole, abysses

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 (soldier, Fionn, they, inveterate poet), 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	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	3 soldier	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 that	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 that	cop
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 that	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 take	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 handed	punct
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 handed	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 single	punct
10	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 that	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 handed	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 take	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 take	aux
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Fianna	det
16	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 hole	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 hole	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 hole	det
20	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 got	nsubj
22	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hole	acl:relcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	22 got	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 retrieve	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 retrieve	cc
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 poet	det:predet
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 poet	det
28	inveterate	inveterate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 poet	amod
29	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 retrieve	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 retrieve	cop
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 retrieve	nsubj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 retrieve	mark
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 Fianna	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Fianna	det
35	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 retrieve	nsubj
36	together	together	ADV	_	35 Fianna	advmod
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 retrieve	aux
38	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	39 retrieve	advmod
39	retrieve	retrieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 take	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 retrieve	obj
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 abysses	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 abysses	det
43	abysses	abyss	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 retrieve	obl
44	into	into	ADP	_	45 which	case
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 tumbled	obl
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 tumbled	nsubj
47	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 abysses	acl:relcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	such soldier	that			tree rules
2	hand	participle					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	take	could	Fionn	the Fianna	any hole		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fianna=Theme out hole=Initial_Location
4	get	past	they	any hole not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=Stimulus
5	is	could · past	such inveterate poet		the abysses	retrieve, scarcely property	tree rules
6	tumble	past	Fionn		the abysses		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into which=Initial_Location

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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