Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 4
But at these vile creatures he thrust with his lengthy spear or stabbed at closer reach with a dagger.
What happens: stab
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: 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 | _ | 7 thrust | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 creatures | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 creatures | det |
| 4 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creatures | amod |
| 5 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thrust | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thrust | nsubj |
| 7 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 spear | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 spear | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lengthy | lengthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spear | amod |
| 11 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thrust | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 stabbed | cc |
| 13 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 spear | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 reach | case |
| 15 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 reach | amod |
| 16 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stabbed | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 dagger | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dagger | det |
| 19 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reach | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stab | participle | at closer reach with a dagger | vn poke-19-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at reach=Theme |
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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