Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 12

But for the only time in his life Oisi’n shrank from a combat.

Who acts: Oisi’n · What happens: shrink

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oisi’n), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 shrank	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 time	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shrank	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 life	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	nmod
9	Oisi’n	Oisi'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 shrank	nsubj
10	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 combat	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 combat	det
13	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shrank	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 shrank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	past	Oisi’n				time	from a combat	vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from combat=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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