Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 18

What a thrill spun to the lofty points of my antlers!

What happens: spin, point · To what, where: thrill, lofty points, antlers

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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 thrill	det
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 thrill	det
3	thrill	thrill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thrill	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 points	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 points	det
7	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 points	amod
8	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spun	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 antlers	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 antlers	nmod:poss
11	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 points	nmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 thrill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	participle		what thrill not said here		the lofty points of my antlers			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to point=Trajectory
2	point			my antlers					nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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