Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 25

The stags of my race fled from my rocky forehead, or were pushed back and back until their legs broke under them and I trampled them to death.

Who acts: stags, legs, I, my · What happens: flee, push, break, trample, race · To what, where: rocky forehead, legs

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 (stags, legs, I, my), 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 stags	det
2	stags	stag	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fled	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 race	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 race	nmod:poss
5	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stags	nmod
6	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 forehead	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 forehead	nmod:poss
9	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 forehead	amod
10	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pushed	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 pushed	cc
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pushed	aux:pass
14	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fled	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 pushed	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 back	cc
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 back	conj
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 broke	mark
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 legs	nmod:poss
20	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 broke	nsubj
21	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pushed	advcl
22	under	under	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 broke	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 trampled	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 trampled	nsubj
26	trampled	trample	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 broke	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 trampled	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 death	case
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 trampled	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flee	past	the stags of my race		my rocky forehead		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from forehead=Initial_Location
2	push	past · passive	the stags of my race not said here				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»
3	break	past	forehead's legs			under forehead	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under they=Location
4	trample	past	I	legs = leg		to death	tree rules
5	race		my				nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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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