Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 9

How he strained and panted to catch on that pursuing person and pursue her and get his own switch into action.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: strain, pant, catch, pursue, get · To what, where: person, own switch, action

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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 strained	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strained	nsubj
3	strained	strain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 panted	cc
5	panted	pant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 strained	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 catch	mark
7	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 panted	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 person	case
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 person	mark
10	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 person	amod
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pursue	cc
13	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 catch	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pursue	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 get	cc
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 pursue	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 switch	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 switch	amod
19	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 action	case
21	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 strained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strain	past	Fionn				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
2	pant	past	Fionn not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	catch	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here			on pursuing person	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	pursue	gerund					vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	pursue	infinitive	Fionn not said here	person			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	get	infinitive	Fionn not said here	Fionn's own switch	action		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer switch=Stimulus

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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