Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 37

For what he could not effect by arms Morgan would endeavour by guile, so that while Art drove at him or parried a crafty blow, the shape of Morgan changed before his eyes, and the monstrous king was having at him in another form, and from a new direction.

Who acts: King, Art, Morgan, monstrous king, arms · What happens: endeavour, drive, parry, change, have, effect · To what, where: crafty blow, form

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Art, Morgan, monstrous king), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 endeavour	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 endeavour	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 effect	advmod
6	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 endeavour	nsubj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 arms	case
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 effect	nmod
9	Morgan	Morgan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 endeavour	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 endeavour	aux
11	endeavour	endeavour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 what	acl:relcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 guile	case
13	guile	guile	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 endeavour	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drove	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	_	19 drove	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 drove	mark
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 drove	mark
18	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 drove	nsubj
19	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 endeavour	parataxis
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drove	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 parried	cc
23	parried	parry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 drove	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 blow	det
25	crafty	crafty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 blow	amod
26	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 parried	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shape	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shape	det
29	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blow	conj
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 changed	mark
31	Morgan	Morgan	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 changed	nsubj
32	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 shape	advcl
33	before	before	ADP	_	35 eyes	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 eyes	nmod:poss
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 changed	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 having	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 having	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 king	det
39	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 king	amod
40	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 having	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 having	aux
42	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 parried	advcl
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 having	obl
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 form	case
46	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	47 form	det
47	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 having	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 direction	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 direction	cc
50	from	from	ADP	_	53 direction	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 direction	det
52	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 direction	amod
53	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	endeavour	would	King				by guile	tree rules
2	drive	past	Art				at King	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	parry	past	Art not said here	a crafty blow and the shape				tree rules
4	change	past	Morgan			before King's eyes		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past · progressive	the monstrous king		another form		at Art	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	effect		arms					nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: by=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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