Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 43

“I will run until I burst,” sobbed Cael, and he screwed agitation and despair into his legs until he hummed and buzzed like a blue-bottle on a window.

Who acts: Carl, Cael · What happens: run, burst, sob, screw, hum, buzz · To what, where: Cael, agitation, legs · 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	10 sobbed	ccomp
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	4 run	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 burst	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 run	punct
10	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sobbed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 screwed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 screwed	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 screwed	nsubj
15	screwed	screw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sobbed	conj
16	agitation	agitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 screwed	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 despair	cc
18	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 agitation	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 legs	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 legs	nmod:poss
21	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 screwed	obl
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 hummed	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hummed	nsubj
24	hummed	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 screwed	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 buzzed	cc
26	buzzed	buzz	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 hummed	conj
27	like	like	ADP	_	31 bottle	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bottle	det
29	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bottle	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 blue	punct
31	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 buzzed	obl
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 window	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 window	det
34	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bottle	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sobbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run in a quote	future	the Carl = carl				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burst in a quote	present	the Carl = carl				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sob	past		Cael			tree rules
4	screw	past	Cael	agitation and despair	Cael's legs		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agitation=Patient
5	hum	past	Cael				vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
6	buzz	participle	Cael not said here			like a blue bottle on a window	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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