Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 32

It was hard to with-stand the terrific blows of that mighty female, for her sword played with the quickness of lightning and smote like the heavy crashing of a storm.

Who acts: sword, mighty female · What happens: be, stand, play, smote, blow · To what, where: terrific blows

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 (sword, mighty female), 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	3 hard	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hard	cop
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 stand	mark
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 stand	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 stand	punct
7	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hard	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 blows	det
9	terrific	terrific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 blows	amod
10	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stand	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 female	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 female	det
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 female	amod
14	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blows	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 played	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 played	mark
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sword	nmod:poss
18	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 played	nsubj
19	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stand	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 quickness	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 quickness	det
22	quickness	quickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 played	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 lightning	case
24	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 quickness	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 smote	cc
26	smote	smote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stand	conj
27	like	like	ADP	_	30 crashing	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 crashing	det
29	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 crashing	amod
30	crashing	crashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smote	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 storm	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 storm	det
33	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 crashing	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			hard property	tree rules
2	stand	to-infinitive		the terrific blows of that mighty female		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blow=Stimulus
3	play	past	Morna's sword		with the quickness of lightning	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with quickness=Theme
4	smote	infinitive			like the heavy crashing of a storm	tree rules
5	blow		that mighty female			nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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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