Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 28

For man may stumble in a furrow; the stag tumble from a cliff; the hawk, wing-weary and beaten, with darkness around him and the storm behind, may dash his brains against a tree.

Who acts: man · What happens: stumble, beat, dash · To what, where: stag tumble, furrow, brains

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 stumble	mark
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stumble	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stumble	aux
4	stumble	stumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 dash	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 furrow	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 furrow	det
7	furrow	furrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stumble	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 tumble	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tumble	det
10	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tumble	compound
11	tumble	tumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stumble	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 cliff	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cliff	det
14	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tumble	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 hawk	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hawk	det
17	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stumble	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 weary	punct
19	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weary	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 wing	punct
21	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hawk	acl:relcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 beaten	cc
23	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 weary	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 darkness	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 darkness	case
26	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hawk	conj
27	around	around	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 darkness	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 storm	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 storm	det
31	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 him	conj
32	behind	behind	ADV	_	31 storm	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stumble	punct
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 dash	aux
35	dash	dash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 brains	nmod:poss
37	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 dash	obj
38	against	against	ADP	_	40 tree	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 tree	det
40	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dash	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 dash	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stumble	may	man	the stag tumble from a cliff	a furrow		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in furrow=Trajectory
2	beat	participle	man not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dash	may		hawk's brains		against a tree	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent brain=Instrument against tree=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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