Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 11
With every passing minute a drop of lead thumped down into every heart, and a pang of despair stabbed up to every brain.
What happens: thump down, stab up · To what, where: lead, heart, pang
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 minute | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 minute | det |
| 3 | passing | passing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 minute | compound |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 drop | det |
| 6 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 minute | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lead | case |
| 8 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drop | nmod |
| 9 | thumped | thump | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lead | acl |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 thumped | compound:prt |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 heart | det |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thumped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pang | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pang | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pang | det |
| 17 | pang | pang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 minute | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 despair | case |
| 19 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pang | nmod |
| 20 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 pang | acl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 stabbed | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 brain | case |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 brain | det |
| 24 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stabbed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 minute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thump down | participle | lead not said here | every heart | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into heart=Location | ||||
| 2 | stab up | participle | a pang of despair not said here | to every brain result | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to brain=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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