Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 17

When Branduv heard it he nearly went mad with love and longing and jealousy, and with rage also, because of the treasure he had given her and might not get back.

Who acts: Branduv · What happens: hear, go, give, not get back · To what, where: whispering, treasure

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Branduv), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	Branduv	Branduv	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 love	case
10	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mad	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 longing	cc
12	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 love	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 jealousy	cc
14	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 love	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rage	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rage	cc
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 rage	case
18	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	conj
19	also	also	ADV	_	18 rage	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 given	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 given	mark
22	of	of	ADP	_	21 because	fixed
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 treasure	det
24	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 given	nsubj:pass
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 given	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 given	aux
27	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 heard	parataxis
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 given	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 get	cc
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 get	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 get	advmod
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 given	conj
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 get	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Branduv	whispering		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	go	past	Branduv		mad, nearly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past · perfect · passive		the treasure		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme
4	not get back	might				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/91/17/