Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 19

After a while he did not want to sneeze, he wanted to scream: and in particular he wanted to come down from the tree.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: not want, sneeze, want, scream, come down · To what, where: tree

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. 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	7 want	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 want	advmod
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sneeze	mark
9	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wanted	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 scream	mark
14	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wanted	xcomp
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 particular	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 particular	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 particular	case
18	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 want	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 particular	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 come	mark
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 tree	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	Fionn		while		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sneeze not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	past	Fionn				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	scream speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	want	past	Fionn				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	come down not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here	the tree		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_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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