Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 81
When Fin saw this, he felt the sweat of fear oozing out through every pore of his skin; but Oonagh, depending upon her woman's wit, felt not a whit daunted.
Who acts: Fin, husband, fear, Oonagh, whit · What happens: see, feel, ooze out, depend, not feel, daunt · To what, where: this, sweat, pore, whit
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fin, husband, fear, Oonagh), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sweat | det |
| 9 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fear | case |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sweat | nmod |
| 12 | oozing | ooze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 fear | acl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 oozing | compound:prt |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 pore | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 pore | det |
| 16 | pore | pore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 oozing | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 skin | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 skin | nmod:poss |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pore | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 Oonagh | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 Oonagh | cc |
| 22 | Oonagh | Oonagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 felt | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 depending | punct |
| 24 | depending | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 Oonagh | acl |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 wit | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 woman | nmod:poss |
| 27 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wit | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 woman | case |
| 29 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 depending | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 felt | punct |
| 31 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | advcl |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 felt | advmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 whit | det |
| 34 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 felt | obj |
| 35 | daunted | daunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 felt | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Fin | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | husband | the sweat of fear | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ooze out | gerund | fear not said here | every pore of husband's skin | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pore=Location | ||||
| 4 | depend | gerund | Oonagh not said here | upon M'Coul's woman's wit | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not feel | past | Oonagh | a whit | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | daunt | participle | a whit not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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