Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 20

They saw the cave and went into it, but no sooner had they passed the holly branches than their strength went from them, and they were seized and bound by the vicious hags.

Who acts: Bran, strength · What happens: see, go, have, pass, seize, bind · To what, where: cave, holly branches, Bran

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bran, strength), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cave	det
4	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 sooner	det
12	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 had	advmod
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 passed	nsubj
15	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 branches	det
17	holly	holly	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 branches	compound
18	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 passed	obj
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 went	mark
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 strength	nmod:poss
21	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 passed	advcl
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seized	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seized	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seized	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seized	aux:pass
29	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 saw	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bound	cc
31	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 seized	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	35 hags	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hags	det
34	vicious	vicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hags	amod
35	hags	hag	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bound	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Bran	the cave			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cave=Stimulus
2	go	past	Bran not said here		cave		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location
3	have	past	Bran not said here			soon property	tree rules
4	pass	past	Bran	the holly branches			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme branch=Trajectory
5	go	past	Bran's strength			from Bran	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from they=Initial_Location
6	seize	past · passive		Bran			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	bind	participle				by the vicious hags	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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