Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 18
For suddenly he had become excited and his heart leaped in violent expectation.
Who acts: sun, heart · What happens: become, leap · To what, where: violent expectation
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 (sun, heart), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 become | mark |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 become | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 become | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 become | aux |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 become | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 leaped | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaped | nsubj |
| 10 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 become | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 expectation | case |
| 12 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 expectation | amod |
| 13 | expectation | expectation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaped | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · perfect | sun | excited, suddenly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leap | participle | sun's heart | violent expectation | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in expectation=Trajectory |
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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