Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 16
Then he commenced to paw and impel and project and cram the mixture into his mouth, and between each mouthful he sighed a contented sigh, and during every mouthful he gurgled an oozy gurgle.
Who acts: Meal · What happens: commence, impel, project, cram, sigh, content · To what, where: paw, mixture, mouth, contented sigh, oozy gurgle
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meal), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 commenced | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commenced | nsubj |
| 3 | commenced | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 paw | mark |
| 5 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commenced | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 impel | cc |
| 7 | impel | impel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commenced | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 project | cc |
| 9 | project | project | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 impel | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cram | cc |
| 11 | cram | cram | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 project | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mixture | det |
| 13 | mixture | mixture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cram | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 mouth | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cram | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sighed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sighed | cc |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 mouthful | case |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 mouthful | det |
| 21 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sighed | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sighed | nsubj |
| 23 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 commenced | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sigh | det |
| 25 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 sigh | amod |
| 26 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sighed | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 gurgled | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 gurgled | cc |
| 29 | during | during | ADP | _ | 31 mouthful | case |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 mouthful | det |
| 31 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gurgled | obl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 gurgled | nsubj |
| 33 | gurgled | gurgle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 commenced | conj |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 gurgle | det |
| 35 | oozy | oozy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 gurgle | amod |
| 36 | gurgle | gurgle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gurgled | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commenced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commence | past | Meal | paw | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | impel | infinitive | Meal not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | project | infinitive | Meal not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cram | infinitive | Meal not said here | the mixture | Meal's mouth | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mixture=Theme into mouth=Destination | |||
| 5 | sigh | past | Meal | a contented sigh | between each mouthful | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Topic | |||
| 6 | content | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | gurgle | past | Meal | a oozy gurgle | during every mouthful | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gurgle=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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