Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 1

Within the cave there was silence except for the voices of the hags and the scarcely audible moaning of the Fianna-Finn, but without there was a dreadful uproar, for as each man returned from the chase his dogs came with him, and although the men went into the cave the dogs did not.

Who acts: man, dogs, men · What happens: be, return, come, go, not do · To what, where: cave silence, dreadful uproar, chase, cave

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, dogs, men), 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	Within	within	ADP	_	3 cave	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cave	det
3	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silence	compound
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 silence	cop
6	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	except	except	ADP	_	10 voices	case
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 voices	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 voices	det
10	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 silence	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 hags	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hags	det
13	hags	hag	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 voices	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 moaning	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 moaning	det
16	scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 moaning	amod
17	audible	audible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 moaning	amod
18	moaning	moaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hags	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 Finn	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Finn	det
21	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Finn	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Fianna	punct
23	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 moaning	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 uproar	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 uproar	cc
26	without	without	SCONJ	_	28 was	mark
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 uproar	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 uproar	det
30	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 uproar	amod
31	uproar	uproar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silence	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 returned	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 returned	mark
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 man	case
35	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 man	det
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 returned	nsubj
37	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 uproar	conj
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 chase	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 chase	det
40	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 returned	obl
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 dogs	nmod:poss
42	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 came	nsubj
43	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 chase	acl:relcl
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 came	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 went	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 went	cc
48	although	although	SCONJ	_	51 went	mark
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 men	det
50	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 went	nsubj
51	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 silence	parataxis
52	into	into	ADP	_	54 cave	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 cave	det
54	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 went	obl
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 dogs	det
56	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 did	nsubj
57	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 went	conj
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 did	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 silence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		cave silence but a dreadful uproar		except the voices of the hags and the scarcely audible moaning of the Fianna Finn	tree rules
2	is a	past		a dreadful uproar			tree rules
3	return	past	each man		the chase		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chase=Initial_Location
4	come	past	man's dogs	the chase not said here		with man	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chase=Theme
5	go	past	the men		the cave		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial_Location
6	not do	past	the dogs				vn act-114-1 «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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