Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 11

I charged him at the head of my troop and rolled him over and over; but it is not easy to kill the bear, so deeply is his life packed under that stinking pelt.

Who acts: I · What happens: charge, roll, not be, kill, be, pack · To what, where: bear, head, life, stinking pelt

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 charged	nsubj
2	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 charged	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 head	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 charged	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 troop	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 troop	nmod:poss
9	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rolled	cc
11	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 charged	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rolled	obj
13	over	over	ADV	_	11 rolled	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 over	cc
15	over	over	ADV	_	13 over	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 easy	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 easy	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 easy	expl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 easy	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 easy	advmod
21	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 charged	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 kill	mark
23	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 easy	csubj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bear	det
25	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kill	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 life	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 deeply	advmod
28	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	31 life	advmod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 life	cop
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 life	nmod:poss
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 charged	parataxis
32	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 life	acl
33	under	under	ADP	_	36 pelt	case
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 pelt	det
35	stinking	stink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 pelt	amod
36	pelt	pelt	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 packed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 charged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	charge	past	I	bear	the head of my troop		tree rules
2	roll	past	I not said here	bear		over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent
3	not is	present				easy property	tree rules
4	kill	to-infinitive		the bear			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme
5	is a	present		bear's life		deeply property	tree rules
6	pack	participle		bear's life not said here	that stinking pelt		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme under pelt=Destination
7	stink	gerund					vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=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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