Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 15
The music ceased and Aillen hissed a fierce blue flame from his mouth, and it was as though he hissed lightning.
Who acts: music, Aillen · What happens: cease, hiss, be · To what, where: fierce blue flame, mouth
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, Aillen), 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 music | det |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ceased | nsubj |
| 3 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hissed | cc |
| 5 | Aillen | Aillen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hissed | nsubj |
| 6 | hissed | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ceased | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 flame | det |
| 8 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flame | amod |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flame | amod |
| 10 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hissed | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 mouth | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hissed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hissed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hissed | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hissed | nsubj:outer |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hissed | cop |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 hissed | advmod |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 hissed | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hissed | nsubj |
| 21 | hissed | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ceased | conj |
| 22 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hissed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | the music | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hiss | past | Aillen | a fierce blue flame | Aillen's mouth | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | past | music | hiss property | 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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