Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 5

“The night wore away, the darkness lifted, the day came; and from without the cave the wolves called to me: “‘Come out, O Skinny Stag.

Who acts: night, darkness, day · What happens: wear away, lift, come, call, come out · To what, where: wolves, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (night, darkness, day), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 wore	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wore	nsubj
4	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 wore	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lifted	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 darkness	det
8	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lifted	nsubj
9	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wore	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lifted	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cave	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cave	cc
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 cave	case
17	without	without	ADP	_	19 cave	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cave	det
19	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wore	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wolves	det
21	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cave	conj
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 wolves	acl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 called	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 Come	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 Come	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 Come	punct
28	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 cave	parataxis
29	out	out	ADV	_	28 Come	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Stag	punct
31	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	33 Stag	case
32	Skinny	skinny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Stag	amod
33	Stag	Stag	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Come	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wear away in a quote	past	the night			away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	lift in a quote	past	the darkness				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come in a quote	past	the day				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	call in a quote	participle		the wolves not said here	me		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
5	come out	infinitive				of Skinny Stag; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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