Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 8

After a while he could buzz around a tree like a maddened fly, and oh, the joy, when he felt himself drawing from the switch and gaining from behind on its bearer!

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: buzz, madden, feel, draw, gain · To what, where: joy, tree, Fionn, bearer

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buzz	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 buzz	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 buzz	aux
6	buzz	buzz	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	around	around	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buzz	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 fly	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fly	det
12	maddened	madden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 fly	amod
13	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 joy	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 joy	cc
16	oh	oh	INTJ	_	19 joy	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 oh	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 joy	det
19	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buzz	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 felt	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 felt	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 felt	nsubj
23	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 buzz	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 felt	obj
25	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 felt	advcl
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 switch	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 switch	det
28	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drawing	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gaining	cc
30	gaining	gain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 drawing	conj
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 behind	case
32	behind	behind	ADV	_	30 gaining	obl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 bearer	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 bearer	nmod:poss
35	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gaining	obl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 buzz	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	could	Fionn	the joy	a tree like a maddened fly	while		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around tree=Location
2	madden	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	feel	past	Fionn	Fionn				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	draw	gerund	Fionn not said here				from the switch	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from switch=Co-Patient
5	gain	gerund	Fionn not said here		switch's bearer			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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