Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 41

Then as two lions, long-clawed, deep-mouthed, snarling, with rigid mane, with red-eyed glare, with flashing, sharp-white fangs, they prowled lithely about each other seeking for an opening.

Who acts: skulls · What happens: snarl, prowl, seek

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 (skulls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:2143): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 prowled	advmod
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 lions	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 lions	nummod
4	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 prowled	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 clawed	punct
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 clawed	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct
8	clawed	claw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lions	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mouthed	punct
10	deep	deep	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 mouthed	advmod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 deep	punct
12	mouthed	mouth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clawed	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 snarling	punct
14	snarling	snarl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 clawed	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mane	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 mane	case
17	rigid	rigid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mane	amod
18	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lions	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 glare	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 glare	case
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eyed	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 red	punct
23	eyed	eye	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 glare	amod
24	glare	glare	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mane	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flashing	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	32 fangs	case
27	flashing	flashing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fangs	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 white	punct
29	sharp	sharp	ADV	_	31 white	advmod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 sharp	punct
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fangs	amod
32	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 mane	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lions	punct
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 prowled	nsubj
35	prowled	prowl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	lithely	lithely	ADV	_	35 prowled	advmod
37	about	about	ADP	_	38 each	case
38	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	35 prowled	obl
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 each	fixed
40	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 prowled	advcl
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 opening	case
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 opening	det
43	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 seeking	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 prowled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	snarl	gerund	skulls = skull not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	prowl	past	skulls = skull	then	as two lions with rigid mane and eyed glare and flashing white fangs; about each; lithely property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about each=Trajectory
3	seek	gerund	skulls = skull not said here		for a opening	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for opening=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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