Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 36

“When all are asleep Aillen mac Midna blows a dart of fire out of his mouth, and everything that is touched by that fire is destroyed, and he can blow his fire to an incredible distance and to any direction.”

Who acts: asleep Aillen mac, fire, mac · What happens: be, blow, touch, destroy, fire · To what, where: dart, mouth, everything, fire, incredible distance

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (asleep Aillen mac, fire, mac), 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	_	9 blows	punct
2	When	when	SCONJ	_	9 blows	mark
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 mac	det
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mac	amod
6	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mac	compound
7	mac	mac	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blows	nsubj
8	Midna	Midna	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mac	appos
9	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dart	det
11	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blows	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 fire	case
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dart	nmod
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 mouth	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 mouth	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mouth	nmod:poss
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blows	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 destroyed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 destroyed	cc
20	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 destroyed	nsubj:pass
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 touched	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 touched	aux:pass
23	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 everything	acl:relcl
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 fire	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 fire	det
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 touched	obl
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 destroyed	aux:pass
28	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 blows	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 blow	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 blow	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 blow	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 blow	aux
33	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 destroyed	parataxis
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 fire	nmod:poss
35	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 blow	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 distance	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 distance	det
38	incredible	incredible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 distance	amod
39	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 blow	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 direction	cc
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 direction	case
42	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	43 direction	det
43	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 distance	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 blows	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 blows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present					asleep property	tree rules
2	blow in a quote	present	all asleep Aillen mac	a dart of fire		mac's mouth		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent dart=Patient
3	touch in a quote	present · passive	that fire					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
4	destroy in a quote	present · passive		everything				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	blow in a quote	can	mac	mac's fire	a incredible distance and any direction			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fire=Patient to distance=Recipient
6	fire in a quote		mac					nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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