Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 17

The third hag, however, had managed to get behind Goll, and she leaped on to his back with the bound of a panther, and hung here with the skilful, many-legged, tight-twisted clutching of a spider.

Who acts: stroke · What happens: manage, get, leap on, hang, clutch · To what, where: third hag, Goll, back

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 (stroke), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hag	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 hag	amod
3	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 managed	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hag	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	8 managed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 managed	aux
8	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 managed	xcomp
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 Goll	case
12	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 leaped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 leaped	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 leaped	nsubj
16	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 managed	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	16 leaped	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 back	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 back	nmod:poss
20	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leaped	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 bound	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bound	det
23	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leaped	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 panther	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 panther	det
26	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bound	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hung	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hung	cc
29	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 managed	parataxis
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 hung	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	45 spider	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 spider	det
33	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 spider	amod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 skilful	punct
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 legged	amod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 many	punct
37	legged	legged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 spider	amod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 legged	punct
39	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 twisted	amod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 tight	punct
41	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 spider	amod
42	clutching	clutch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 spider	nsubj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 spider	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 spider	det
45	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hung	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	manage	past · perfect · passive		the third hag		however property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive			Goll		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	leap on	past	stroke		Goll's back	with the bound of a panther	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to back=Destination
4	hang	past			here	with the skilful legged twisted spider	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	clutch	gerund					vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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