Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 3

They stood outside, filled with savagery and terror, for they could scent their masters and their masters’ danger, and perhaps they could get from the cave smells till then unknown and full of alarm.

Who acts: dogs, cave · What happens: stand, fill, get, smell

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 (dogs, cave), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 filled	punct
5	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 savagery	case
7	savagery	savagery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 filled	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 terror	cc
9	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 savagery	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 scent	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 scent	case
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 scent	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 scent	aux
14	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 masters	nmod:poss
16	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 scent	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 danger	cc
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 masters	nmod:poss
19	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 danger	nmod:poss
20	’	's	PART	_	19 masters	case
21	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 masters	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 get	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 get	cc
24	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	27 get	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stood	parataxis
28	from	from	SCONJ	_	31 smells	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cave	det
30	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 smells	nsubj
31	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 get	advcl
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 unknown	mark
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 unknown	advmod
34	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 smells	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 full	cc
36	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 unknown	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 alarm	case
38	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 full	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stand	past	dogs = dog	for scent and dogs's masters and dogs's masters's danger; outside property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for scent=Attribute
2	fill	participle	dogs = dog not said here	with savagery and terror	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with savagery=Instrument
3	get	could	dogs = dog	perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	smell	present	the cave	unknown property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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