Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 28

His hands began to twitch and a desire crept over him to seize on champions by the neck, and to shake and worry and rage among them like a wild dog raging among sheep.

Who acts: hands, desire, wild dog · What happens: begin, twitch, creep, seize, shake, worry · To what, where: champions

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: who acts (hands, desire, wild dog), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hands	nmod:poss
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 twitch	mark
5	twitch	twitch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 crept	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 desire	det
8	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crept	nsubj
9	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 crept	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 seize	mark
13	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 crept	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 champions	case
15	champions	champion	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seize	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 neck	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 neck	det
18	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seize	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shake	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shake	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 shake	mark
22	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 worry	cc
24	worry	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 shake	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rage	cc
26	rage	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 shake	conj
27	among	among	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 rage	obl
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 dog	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 dog	det
31	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dog	amod
32	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rage	obl
33	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 dog	acl
34	among	among	ADP	_	35 sheep	case
35	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 raging	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	haze's hands			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	twitch	to-infinitive	haze's hands not said here			vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	creep	past	a desire		over haze	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Trajectory
4	seize	to-infinitive	a desire not said here	champions	by the neck	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	shake	to-infinitive				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	worry	infinitive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	rage	infinitive			among hands = hand; like a wild dog	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location
8	rage	gerund	a wild dog not said here		among sheep	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among sheep=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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