Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 35
My head grew heavy, my eyes dim, my knees jerked and trembled, and there the wolves dared chase me.
Who acts: head, knees, wolves · What happens: grow, jerk, tremble, dare, chase · To what, where: me
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 (head, knees, wolves), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 head | nmod:poss |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dim | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dim | nsubj |
| 8 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heavy | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 jerked | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 knees | nmod:poss |
| 11 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 jerked | nsubj |
| 12 | jerked | jerk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 trembled | cc |
| 14 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 jerked | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dared | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dared | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 dared | expl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wolves | det |
| 19 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dared | nsubj |
| 20 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 21 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 dared | xcomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 chase | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | My head | heavy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jerk | past | my knees | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tremble | past | my knees not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dare | past | the wolves | there | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | chase | infinitive | the wolves not said here | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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