Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 9
“I was in air, and it was as though I were in fire.
Who acts: man, air · What happens: be · To what, where: air, fire
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 (man, air), 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 | _ | 5 air | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 air | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 air | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 air | case |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fire | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fire | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fire | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fire | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 fire | advmod |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 fire | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fire | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fire | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 air | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 air | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | man | air and fire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | air | fire | tree rules |
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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