Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 45

He ate of these until he was no more than a sack of juice, and when he heard the humming and buzzing of Cael of the Iron he mourned and lamented that he could not wait to eat his fill He took off his coat, stuffed it full of blackberries, swung it on his shoulders, and went bounding stoutly and nimbly for Ben Edair.

Who acts: Carl, fill · What happens: eat, not be, hear, mourn, lament, not wait · To what, where: humming, Iron, coat, shoulders

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, fill), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 these	case
4	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 ate	obl
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 more	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 more	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 more	cop
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 ate	obj
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 sack	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sack	det
12	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 more	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 juice	case
14	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sack	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heard	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 heard	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 humming	det
21	humming	humming	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 buzzing	cc
23	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 humming	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Cael	case
25	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 buzzing	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 Iron	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Iron	det
28	Iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 buzzing	nmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 mourned	nsubj
30	mourned	mourn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Iron	acl:relcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lamented	cc
32	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 mourned	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 wait	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 wait	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 wait	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 wait	advmod
37	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 lamented	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 eat	mark
39	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 wait	xcomp
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 fill	nmod:poss
41	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 took	nsubj
42	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 took	nsubj
43	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 eat	parataxis
44	off	off	ADP	_	43 took	compound:prt
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 coat	nmod:poss
46	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 took	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 stuffed	punct
48	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 took	conj
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 stuffed	obj
50	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 stuffed	xcomp
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 blackberries	case
52	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 full	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 swung	punct
54	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 stuffed	conj
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 swung	obj
56	on	on	ADP	_	58 shoulders	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 shoulders	nmod:poss
58	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 swung	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 went	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 went	cc
61	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	conj
62	bounding	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	61 went	xcomp
63	stoutly	stoutly	ADV	_	62 bounding	advmod
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 nimbly	cc
65	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	63 stoutly	conj
66	for	for	ADP	_	67 Ben	case
67	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 bounding	obl
68	Edair	Edair	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 Ben	flat
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Carl			of these	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of this=Source
2	not is	past	Carl			than a sack of juice; more property	tree rules
3	hear	past	Carl	the humming and buzzing of Cael of the Iron			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer humming=Stimulus
4	mourn	past	Carl	the Iron not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer iron=Stimulus
5	lament	past	Carl not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	not wait	could	Carl				tree rules
7	eat	to-infinitive	Carl not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	take off	past	Carl's fill	Carl's coat			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
9	stuff	past	Carl's fill not said here	coat		full property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
10	swing	past	Carl's fill not said here	coat	Carl's shoulders		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Location
11	go	past	Carl not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	bound	gerund	Carl not said here			for Ben; stoutly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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