Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 14

“But try and run like this,” the Carl admonished, and he gave a wriggling bound and a sudden outstretching and scurrying of shanks, and he disappeared from Cael’s sight in one wild spatter of big boots.

Who acts: Carl, Cael · What happens: try, run, admonish, give, outstretch, scurry · To what, where: wriggling bound, sight, big boots · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Carl, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 try	cc
3	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 admonished	ccomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 run	cc
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 try	conj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 run	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Carl	det
11	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 admonished	nsubj
12	admonished	admonish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 admonished	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bound	det
18	wriggling	wriggling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bound	compound
19	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 spatter	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 spatter	det
22	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 spatter	amod
23	outstretching	outstretch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 spatter	csubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 scurrying	cc
25	scurrying	scurry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 outstretching	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 shanks	case
27	shanks	shank	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 scurrying	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 disappeared	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 disappeared	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 disappeared	nsubj
31	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 spatter	advcl
32	from	from	ADP	_	35 sight	case
33	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 sight	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 Cael	case
35	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 disappeared	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 spatter	case
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 spatter	nummod
38	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 spatter	amod
39	spatter	spatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bound	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 boots	case
41	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 boots	amod
42	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 spatter	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 admonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try in a quote	infinitive	the Carl not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	run in a quote	infinitive	the Carl not said here			like this	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	admonish	past	the Carl				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	past	Carl	a wriggling bound and a sudden one wild spatter of big boots			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Theme
5	outstretch	gerund					tree rules
6	scurry	gerund				of shanks	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of shank=Trajectory
7	disappear	past	Carl		Cael's sight		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location
8	sight		Cael				nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
9	spatter			big boots			nom spatter «event transitive»: of=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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