Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 19

He got her on the ground and tied her hands with the straps of a shield, and he was going to give her the last blow when she appealed to his honour and bravery.

Who acts: Goll, stroke · What happens: get, tie, go, give, appeal, honour · To what, where: stroke, ground, hands, last blow

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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tied	cc
8	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tied	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 straps	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 straps	det
13	straps	strap	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tied	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 shield	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 shield	det
16	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 straps	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 going	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 going	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 going	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 got	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 going	xcomp
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 blow	det
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 blow	amod
27	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 appealed	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 appealed	nsubj
30	appealed	appeal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 blow	acl:relcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 honour	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 honour	nmod:poss
33	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 appealed	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bravery	cc
35	bravery	bravery	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 honour	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	Goll	stroke		the ground		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme on ground=Source
2	tie	past	Goll not said here	stroke's hands			with the straps of a shield	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with strap=Co-Patient
3	go	past · progressive	Goll					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	to-infinitive	Goll not said here	the last blow	stroke			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient blow=Theme
5	appeal	past	stroke				to Goll's honour and bravery	vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to honour=Experiencer
6	honour		Goll					nom honour «state transitive»: poss=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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