Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 2
Weariness stole into my limbs, and anguish dozed into my mind.
Who acts: Weariness, my · What happens: steal, anguish, doze, mind · To what, where: limbs, mind
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 (Weariness, my), 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 | Weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stole | nsubj |
| 2 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 limbs | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stole | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 anguish | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 anguish | cc |
| 8 | anguish | anguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stole | conj |
| 9 | dozed | doze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 anguish | xcomp |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 mind | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mind | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dozed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | Weariness | my limbs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | anguish | infinitive | Weariness not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | doze | participle | Weariness not said here | my mind | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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