Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 23
Not a creature dared creep or stand.
What happens: dare, stand
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 creature | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 creature | det |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 creep | amod |
| 5 | creep | creep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 creature | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 stand | cc |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 creep | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | stand | infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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