Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 21

The executioner drew his wide, thin blade and all those present covered their eyes with their cloaks, when a wailing voice called on the executioner to delay yet a moment.

Who acts: executioner, present · What happens: draw, cover, wail, call, delay · To what, where: wide thin blade, eyes, wailing voice, executioner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (executioner, present), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 executioner	det
2	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 blade	nmod:poss
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blade	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wide	punct
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blade	amod
8	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 covered	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 present	det:predet
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 present	det
12	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	nsubj
13	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 covered	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 cloaks	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cloaks	nmod:poss
18	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 covered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 called	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 voice	det
22	wailing	wail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 voice	amod
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	nsubj:pass
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 cloaks	acl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 executioner	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 executioner	det
27	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 delay	mark
29	delay	delay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 executioner	acl
30	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	32 moment	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 moment	det
32	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 executioner	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the executioner	executioner's wide thin blade			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Theme
2	cover	past	all present	people's eyes		with people's cloaks	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Destination with cloak=Theme
3	wail	gerund					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	call	participle · passive		a wailing voice	the executioner yet a moment		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	delay	to-infinitive					vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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