Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 33

“Not half a second will I wait,” Cael replied, and he began to run towards Ben Edair as a lover runs to his maiden or as a bee flies to his hive.

Who acts: second, Cael, lover, bee · What happens: wait, reply, begin, run, fly · 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 (second, Cael, lover, bee), 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	_	8 wait	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 half	advmod
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 second	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 second	det
5	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 wait	aux
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wait	nsubj
8	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 replied	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct
11	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 replied	nsubj
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 replied	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 run	mark
18	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 Ben	case
20	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 run	obl:agent
21	Edair	Edair	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Ben	flat
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 runs	mark
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lover	det
24	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 runs	nsubj
25	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 run	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 his	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 runs	advcl
28	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 his	xcomp
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 flies	cc
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 flies	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bee	det
32	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flies	nsubj
33	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 maiden	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 hive	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 hive	nmod:poss
36	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flies	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait in a quote	future	half second		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	Cael		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin	past	Cael		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	run	to-infinitive	Cael not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run	present	a lover		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fly	present	a bee	to Cael's hive result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hive=Result

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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