Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 16
“I will run until I burst,” he shrieked, “and when I burst, may I burst to a great distance, and may I trip that beggar-man up with my burstings and make him break his leg.”
Who acts: Carl, Cael · What happens: run, burst, shriek, trip up, make, break · To what, where: beggar man, Cael, leg · 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 | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 run | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 burst | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 burst | nsubj |
| 7 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shrieked | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 burst | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 burst | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 shrieked | nsubj |
| 11 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 burst | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 burst | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 burst | cc |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 burst | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 burst | nsubj |
| 17 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 burst | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 burst | punct |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 burst | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 burst | nsubj |
| 21 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shrieked | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 distance | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 distance | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 distance | amod |
| 25 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burst | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 trip | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 trip | cc |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 trip | aux |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 trip | nsubj |
| 30 | trip | trip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 run | advcl |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 man | det |
| 32 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 man | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 beggar | punct |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 trip | obj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 trip | compound:prt |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 burstings | case |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 burstings | nmod:poss |
| 38 | burstings | bursting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 trip | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 make | cc |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 run | conj |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 make | obj |
| 42 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 make | xcomp |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 leg | nmod:poss |
| 44 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 break | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | future | the Carl = carl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | burst in a quote | present | the Carl = carl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shriek | past | Cael | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | burst in a quote | past | the Carl = carl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | burst in a quote | may | the Carl = carl | to a great distance | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | trip up in a quote | may | the Carl = carl | that beggar man | with my burstings | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Patient with bursting=Instrument | |||
| 7 | make in a quote | infinitive | the Carl = carl not said here | Cael | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | break in a quote | infinitive | Cael not said here | Cael's leg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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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