Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 10

The air pressed on me like a fiery mountain.

What happens: press · To what, where: air

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 air	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 pressed	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 mountain	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mountain	det
8	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mountain	amod
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pressed	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 air	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	participle		the air not said here				on me; like a fiery mountain	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on 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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