Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 42
And with that he incensed and exploded himself into an eye-blinding, continuous, waggle and complexity of boots that left Cael behind him in a flash.
Who acts: Carl, boots · What happens: incense, explode, leave · To what, where: Carl, eye blinding, Cael, flash
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, boots), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 exploded | cc |
| 2 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 incensed | mark |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 incensed | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 incensed | nsubj |
| 5 | incensed | incense | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 exploded | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 exploded | cc |
| 7 | exploded | explode | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 exploded | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 blinding | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 blinding | det |
| 11 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blinding | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 eye | punct |
| 13 | blinding | blinding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exploded | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 continuous | punct |
| 15 | continuous | continuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 blinding | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 waggle | punct |
| 17 | waggle | waggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blinding | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 complexity | cc |
| 19 | complexity | complexity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blinding | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 boots | case |
| 21 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 complexity | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 left | nsubj |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 boots | acl:relcl |
| 24 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 left | obj |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 left | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 flash | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 flash | det |
| 29 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 left | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 exploded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incense | past | Carl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | explode | past | Carl | a eye blinding and waggle and complexity of boots | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | boots | Cael | a flash | behind Carl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cael=Theme behind he=Location |
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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