Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 35

The grief flooded out of his heart as at a stroke, and joy foamed into it in one great tide.

Who acts: grief, joy · What happens: flood out, foam · 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: who acts (grief, joy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grief	det
2	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flooded	nsubj
3	flooded	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 heart	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 heart	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heart	nmod:poss
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flooded	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 stroke	case
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 stroke	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stroke	det
11	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flooded	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 foamed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 foamed	cc
14	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 foamed	nsubj
15	foamed	foam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flooded	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 foamed	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 tide	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 tide	nummod
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tide	amod
21	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 foamed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flooded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood out	past	the grief	boy's heart				as a stroke	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	foam	past	joy			heart		in one great tide	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tide=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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