Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 28

But on a gloomy winter night, with black, scowling clouds, a hunter of game was wearily travelling the hills, and what happened but that he missed the trail of the hunt, and lost his course and companions.

Who acts: man · What happens: scowl, travel, happen, miss, lose · To what, where: hills, trail, course

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 travelling	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	6 night	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 night	det
4	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 night	compound
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 travelling	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clouds	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 clouds	case
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clouds	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 scowling	punct
11	scowling	scowl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 clouds	amod
12	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 night	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hunter	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hunter	det
15	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clouds	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 game	case
17	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hunter	nmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 travelling	aux
19	wearily	wearily	ADV	_	20 travelling	advmod
20	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hills	det
22	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 travelling	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 happened	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 happened	cc
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 happened	nsubj
26	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 travelling	parataxis
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 missed	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 missed	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 missed	nsubj
30	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 happened	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 trail	det
32	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 missed	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 hunt	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hunt	det
35	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 trail	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lost	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 lost	cc
38	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 happened	conj
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 course	nmod:poss
40	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lost	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 companions	cc
42	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 course	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 travelling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	scowl	gerund					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	travel	past · progressive		the hills	night	wearily property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Trajectory
3	happen	past					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	miss	past	man	the trail of the hunt			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trail=Stimulus
5	lose	past		man's course and companions			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Eventuality

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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