--- title: It weighed on me and squeezed me, so that my eyes felt as though the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: It weighed on me and squeezed me, so that my eyes felt as though they must burst from my head, my head as though it would leap from my body, and my body as though it would swell and expand and fly in a thousand pieces. Who acts: air, eyes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, eyes), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:12:13 # text = It weighed on me and squeezed me, so that my eyes felt as though they must burst from my head, my head as though it would leap from my body, and my body as though it would swell and expand and fly in a thousand pieces. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 weighed weigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 squeezed squeeze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 13 mark _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 though though SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 burst burst VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 25 as as ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 26 though though SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 leap leap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 37 as as ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 38 though though SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 swell swell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 expand expand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 49 nummod _ _ 49 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weigh** | past | air | | | | | on me | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **squeeze** | past | air *not said here* | me | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent i=Result | | 3 | **feel** | past | my eyes | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **burst** | must | eyes *= eye* | | | my head | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **leap** | would | air | | | my body | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from body=Trajectory | | 6 | **swell** | would | air | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **expand** | infinitive | air *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **fly** | infinitive | air *not said here* | | | thousand pieces | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/12/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/12/14/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/12/)