Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 10

And the wolves feared me then, and the great, grim bear went bounding on heavy paws.

Who acts: wolves, great grim bear · What happens: fear, go, bound · To what, where: me, heavy paws

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolves, great grim bear), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 feared	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolves	det
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feared	nsubj
4	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 feared	obj
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 feared	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bear	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bear	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 great	punct
12	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bear	amod
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feared	conj
15	bounding	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 went	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 paws	case
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 paws	amod
18	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bounding	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	fear	past	the wolves	me		then	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	go	past	the great grim bear				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bound	gerund	the great grim bear not said here		heavy paws		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on paw=Trajectory

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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