Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 25
And Fionn’s heart might have swelled with rage, but that it was already swollen with adventure.
What happens: swell · To what, where: heart
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 swelled | cc |
| 2 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Fionn | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swelled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 swelled | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 swelled | aux |
| 7 | swelled | swell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 rage | case |
| 9 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swelled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swollen | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 swollen | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 swollen | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 swollen | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 swollen | aux:pass |
| 15 | already | already | ADV | _ | 16 swollen | advmod |
| 16 | swollen | swell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 swelled | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 adventure | case |
| 18 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swollen | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 swelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swell | might · perfect · passive | Fionn's heart | with rage | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent | ||||
| 2 | swell | past · passive | heart | with adventure | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent |
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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