Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 25

He started then to climb down the tree with a heavy heart, but while he hung from the last branch and was about to let go, he noticed a tall warrior walking towards him.

Who acts: rest, tall warrior · What happens: start, climb down, hang, be, let, go · To what, where: tree, last branch, tall warrior

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 (rest, tall warrior), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 started	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 climb	mark
5	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 started	advcl
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 climb	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climb	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 heart	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 heart	det
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 heart	amod
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climb	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hung	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 hung	cc
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 hung	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hung	nsubj
17	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	parataxis
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 branch	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 branch	det
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 branch	amod
21	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hung	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 about	cc
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 about	cop
24	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hung	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 let	mark
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 about	xcomp
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 noticed	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 noticed	nsubj
30	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 warrior	det
32	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 warrior	amod
33	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 noticed	obj
34	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 warrior	acl
35	towards	towards	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 walking	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	rest			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	climb down	to-infinitive	rest not said here	the tree			with a heavy heart	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	hang	past	rest		the last branch			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	rest not said here				about property	tree rules
5	let	to-infinitive	rest not said here					tree rules
6	go	infinitive	rest not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	notice	past	rest	a tall warrior				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer warrior=Stimulus
8	walk	gerund	a tall warrior not said here				towards rest	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination

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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