Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 14
“The light blinded me, the heat tormented me, the dry air made me shrivel and gasp; and, as he lay on the grass, the great salmon whirled his desperate nose once more to the river, and leaped, leaped, leaped, even under the mountain of air.
Who acts: light, heat, dry air, man, great salmon · What happens: blind, torment, make, shrivel, gasp, lie · To what, where: man, grass, desperate nose, mountain
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: who acts (light, heat, dry air, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 blinded | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 light | det |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blinded | nsubj |
| 4 | blinded | blind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 blinded | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tormented | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heat | det |
| 8 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tormented | nsubj |
| 9 | tormented | torment | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blinded | parataxis |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tormented | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 13 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 air | amod |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tormented | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | shrivel | shrivel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gasp | cc |
| 19 | gasp | gasp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 shrivel | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 whirled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 whirled | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 and | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 lay | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lay | nsubj |
| 25 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 whirled | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 grass | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 grass | det |
| 28 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lay | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lay | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 salmon | det |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 salmon | amod |
| 32 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 whirled | nsubj |
| 33 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blinded | conj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 nose | nmod:poss |
| 35 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 nose | amod |
| 36 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 whirled | obj |
| 37 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 38 more | advmod |
| 38 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 whirled | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 river | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 river | det |
| 41 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 more | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 leaped | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 leaped | cc |
| 44 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 whirled | parataxis |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 leaped | punct |
| 46 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 leaped | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 leaped | punct |
| 48 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 leaped | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 mountain | punct |
| 50 | even | even | ADV | _ | 53 mountain | advmod |
| 51 | under | under | ADP | _ | 53 mountain | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 mountain | det |
| 53 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 leaped | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 air | case |
| 55 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 mountain | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blinded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blind in a quote | past | the light | man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | torment in a quote | past | the heat | man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | past | the dry air | man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shrivel in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | gasp in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | lie in a quote | past | heat | the grass | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location | ||||
| 7 | whirl in a quote | past | the great salmon | salmon's desperate nose | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nose=Theme | ||||
| 8 | leap in a quote | participle | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | leap in a quote | participle | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 10 | leap in a quote | participle | the mountain of air | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under mountain=Trajectory |
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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