Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 37
Then he sprang up, and he took to a fit and a vortex and an exasperation of running for which no description may be found.
Who acts: Carl, exasperation · What happens: spring up, take, run, find · To what, where: description
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, exasperation), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sprang | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 fit | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fit | det |
| 11 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 vortex | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 vortex | det |
| 14 | vortex | vortex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fit | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 exasperation | cc |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 exasperation | det |
| 17 | exasperation | exasperation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fit | conj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 running | mark |
| 19 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 exasperation | acl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 found | obl |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 description | det |
| 23 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 found | aux:pass |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 running | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | Carl | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Carl | to a fit and a vortex and a exasperation result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fit=Result | ||||
| 3 | run | gerund | a exasperation not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | find | may · passive | no description | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for which=Beneficiary |
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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