Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 5

Cael of the Iron grew purple in the face, and he almost swallowed his tongue through wrath.

Who acts: Cael · What happens: grow, swallow · To what, where: face, tongue, wrath

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cael), 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	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Iron	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Iron	det
4	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cael	nmod
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grew	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 face	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 face	det
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swallowed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 swallowed	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 swallowed	nsubj
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 swallowed	advmod
14	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tongue	nmod:poss
16	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swallowed	obj
17	through	through	ADP	_	18 wrath	case
18	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swallowed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Cael of the Iron			the face		purple property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Location
2	swallow	past	Cael	Cael's tongue		wrath		almost property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient

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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