Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 33

But into that din and encirclement Goll pressed and ventured, steady as a rock in water, agile as a creature of the sea, and when one of the combatants retreated it was the hag that gave backwards.

Who acts: one, sword, hag · What happens: press, venture, retreat, be, give · To what, where: din, hag

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 (one, sword, hag), 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	_	8 pressed	cc
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 din	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 din	det
4	din	din	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pressed	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 encirclement	cc
6	encirclement	encirclement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 din	conj
7	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 encirclement	appos
8	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ventured	cc
10	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pressed	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 steady	punct
12	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ventured	xcomp
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 rock	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rock	det
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 steady	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 water	case
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 steady	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 agile	punct
19	agile	agile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 water	amod
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 creature	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 creature	det
22	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 agile	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 sea	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sea	det
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 creature	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 retreated	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 retreated	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 retreated	advmod
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 retreated	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 combatants	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 combatants	det
32	combatants	combatant	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
33	retreated	retreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pressed	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hag	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 hag	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hag	det
37	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 retreated	obj
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 gave	nsubj
39	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 hag	acl:relcl
40	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	39 gave	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	press	past			that din and encirclement		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into din=Trajectory
2	venture	past				steady property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	retreat	past	one of the combatants				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is a	past	sword	the hag			tree rules
5	give	past	the hag			backwards property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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