Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 22

Aillen, with all the terrific strength of which he was master, blew again, and the great jet of blue flame came roaring and whistling from him and was caught and disappeared.

Who acts: Aillen, great jet · What happens: be, blow, come, roar, whistle, catch · To what, where: master

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 (Aillen, great jet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:757): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 blew	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 strength	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 strength	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 strength	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 strength	det
6	terrific	terrific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 strength	amod
7	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blew	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 master	nmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 master	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 master	cop
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strength	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 strength	punct
14	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 blew	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 jet	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 jet	amod
20	jet	jet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 flame	case
22	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flame	amod
23	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jet	nmod
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 blew	conj
25	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 came	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 whistling	cc
27	whistling	whistle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 roaring	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 whistling	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 caught	cc
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 caught	aux:pass
32	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 came	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 disappeared	cc
34	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 caught	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Aillen	master		of all terrific strength	tree rules
2	blow	past	Aillen		again	with all terrific strength	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with strength=Theme
3	come	past	the great jet of blue flame				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	roar	gerund	the great jet of blue flame not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	whistle	gerund	the great jet of blue flame not said here			from Aillen	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	catch	past · passive	the great jet of blue flame not said here				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»
7	disappear	past	the great jet of blue flame not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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