Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 6

My nose touched air and spun from it as from fire, and I dived with all my might against the bottom of the net, holding yet to the water, loving it, mad with terror that I must quit that loveliness.

Who acts: nose, I, terror · What happens: touch, spin, dive, hold, love, quit · To what, where: air, nose, water, loveliness

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 (nose, I, terror), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nose	nmod:poss
2	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touched	nsubj
3	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touched	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spun	cc
6	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 touched	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spun	obl
9	as	as	ADV	_	11 fire	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 fire	case
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spun	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dived	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dived	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 dived	nsubj
15	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 touched	conj
16	with	with	SCONJ	_	22 bottom	mark
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 bottom	det:predet
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 bottom	nmod:poss
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bottom	aux
20	against	against	ADP	_	22 bottom	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bottom	det
22	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dived	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 net	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 net	det
25	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bottom	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 holding	punct
27	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 dived	advcl
28	yet	yet	ADV	_	27 holding	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 water	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 water	det
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 holding	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 loving	punct
33	loving	love	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 holding	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 loving	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 mad	punct
36	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 loving	xcomp
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 terror	case
38	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 mad	obl
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 quit	nsubj
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 quit	nsubj
41	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 quit	aux
42	quit	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 terror	acl:relcl
43	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 loveliness	det
44	loveliness	loveliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 quit	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	My nose	air				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme air=Co-Theme
2	spin	participle	My nose not said here		nose		from fire	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory
3	dive	past	I					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	hold	gerund	I not said here			yet	to the water	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	love	gerund	I not said here	water			mad property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	quit	must	terror	that loveliness				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loveliness=Source

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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