Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 39

The beasts that were ranging beside his path dropped dead from concussion, and the steam that snored from his nose blew birds into bits and made great lumps of cloud fall out of the sky.

Who acts: beasts, steam, great lumps · What happens: range, drop, snore, blow, make, fall · To what, where: path, concussion, nose, birds, bits, sky

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beasts, steam, great lumps), 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 beasts	det
2	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dropped	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 ranging	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ranging	aux
5	ranging	range	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 beasts	acl:relcl
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 path	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 path	nmod:poss
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ranging	obl
9	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dropped	xcomp
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 concussion	case
12	concussion	concussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dropped	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 blew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 blew	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 steam	det
16	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blew	nsubj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 snored	nsubj
18	snored	snore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 steam	acl:relcl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 nose	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 nose	nmod:poss
21	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 snored	obl
22	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dropped	parataxis
23	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 blew	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	25 bits	case
25	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 blew	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 made	cc
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 blew	conj
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lumps	amod
29	lumps	lump	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fall	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 cloud	case
31	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lumps	nmod
32	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 made	parataxis
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 sky	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 sky	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sky	det
36	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fall	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	range	past · progressive	the beasts		Carl's path		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
2	drop	past	the beasts		concussion	dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from concussion=Trajectory
3	snore	past	the steam		Carl's nose		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	blow	past	the steam	birds	bits		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent bird=Material into bit=Product
5	make	past	the steam not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	fall	present	great lumps of cloud		the sky		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out sky=Location

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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