Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 13

It weighed on me and squeezed me, so that my eyes felt as though they must burst from my head, my head as though it would leap from my body, and my body as though it would swell and expand and fly in a thousand pieces.

Who acts: air, eyes · What happens: weigh, squeeze, feel, burst, leap, swell · To what, where: me, head, body, thousand pieces

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, eyes), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 weighed	nsubj
2	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 weighed	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 squeezed	cc
6	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 weighed	conj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 squeezed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 felt	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 felt	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 felt	nsubj
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 weighed	conj
14	as	as	ADV	_	13 felt	advmod
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 burst	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 burst	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 burst	aux
18	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 felt	advcl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burst	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 head	punct
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burst	conj
25	as	as	ADV	_	18 burst	advmod
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 leap	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 leap	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 leap	aux
29	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 burst	advcl
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 body	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 body	nmod:poss
32	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leap	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 body	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 body	cc
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 body	nmod:poss
36	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 weighed	conj
37	as	as	ADV	_	41 swell	advmod
38	though	though	SCONJ	_	41 swell	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 swell	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 swell	aux
41	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 weighed	advcl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 expand	cc
43	expand	expand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 swell	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 fly	cc
45	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 swell	conj
46	in	in	ADP	_	49 pieces	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 thousand	det
48	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 pieces	nummod
49	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 fly	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 weighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weigh	past	air			on me	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	squeeze	past	air not said here	me			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent i=Result
3	feel	past	my eyes				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	burst	must	eyes = eye		my head		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	leap	would	air		my body		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from body=Trajectory
6	swell	would	air				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	expand	infinitive	air not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	fly	infinitive	air not said here		thousand pieces		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Location

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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