Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 16

It was a hard and a tricky fight, and Goll won it by bravery and strategy and great good luck; for with one shrewd slice of his blade he carved two of these mighty termagants into equal halves, so that there were noses and whiskers to his right hand and knees and toes to his left: and that stroke was known afterwards as one of the three great sword-strokes of Ireland.

Who acts: Goll · What happens: be, win, carve, know, slice, stroke · To what, where: snap, two, stroke, blade, Ireland

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 (Goll), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hard	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hard	det
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fight	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fight	det
7	tricky	tricky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fight	amod
8	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hard	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 won	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 won	cc
11	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 won	nsubj
12	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 won	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 bravery	case
15	bravery	bravery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 won	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 strategy	cc
17	strategy	strategy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bravery	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 luck	cc
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 luck	amod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 luck	amod
21	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bravery	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 carved	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	27 slice	case
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 slice	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 slice	nummod
26	shrewd	shrewd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 slice	amod
27	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carved	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 blade	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 blade	nmod:poss
30	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 slice	nmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 carved	nsubj
32	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	conj
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 carved	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 termagants	case
35	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 termagants	det
36	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 termagants	amod
37	termagants	termagant	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 two	nmod
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 halves	case
39	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 halves	amod
40	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 termagants	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 were	punct
42	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	45 were	mark
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 so	fixed
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	45 were	expl
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 left	nsubj
46	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 were	nsubj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 whiskers	cc
48	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 noses	conj
49	to	to	ADP	_	52 hand	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 hand	nmod:poss
51	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 hand	amod
52	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 noses	nmod
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 knees	cc
54	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 hand	conj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 toes	cc
56	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 knees	conj
57	to	to	ADP	_	59 left	case
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 left	nmod:poss
59	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carved	obl
60	:	:	PUNCT	_	65 known	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 known	cc
62	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	63 stroke	det
63	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 known	nsubj:pass
64	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 known	aux:pass
65	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 left	parataxis
66	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	65 known	advmod
67	as	as	ADP	_	68 one	case
68	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	65 known	obl
69	of	of	ADP	_	75 strokes	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 strokes	det
71	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	75 strokes	nummod
72	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 strokes	amod
73	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 strokes	compound
74	-	-	PUNCT	_	73 sword	punct
75	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 one	nmod
76	of	of	ADP	_	77 Ireland	case
77	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	75 strokes	nmod
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			hard property	tree rules
2	win	past	Goll	snap	by bravery and strategy and great good luck	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	carve	past	Goll	two of this mighty termagants into equal halves	for one shrewd slice of Goll's blade; to nose's left	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent two=Product for slice=Asset
4	know	past · passive		that stroke	as one of the three great sword strokes of Ireland; afterwards property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as one=Attribute
5	slice			Goll's blade		nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient
6	stroke			Ireland		nom stroke «act transitive»: of=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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