Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 7

The wind was always behind him, for he outran it every time; and he caught up in jumps and bounces on Cael of the Iron, although Cael was running well, with his fists up and his head back and his two legs flying in and out so vigorously that you could not see them because of that speedy movement.

Who acts: wind, Carl, Cael, two legs, you · What happens: be, outrun, catch up, bounce, run, fly · To what, where: wind, jumps, Cael, legs

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 (wind, Carl, Cael, two legs), 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 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 him	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 him	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 him	advmod
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 outran	nsubj:outer
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 outran	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 outran	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 outran	nsubj
10	outran	outrun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 outran	obj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 outran	obl:unmarked
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 caught	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 caught	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 caught	nsubj
17	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 outran	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 caught	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 jumps	case
20	jumps	jump	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 caught	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bounces	cc
22	bounces	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 outran	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 Cael	case
24	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 bounces	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Iron	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Iron	det
27	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Cael	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 running	punct
29	although	although	SCONJ	_	32 running	mark
30	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 running	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 running	aux
32	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 bounces	advcl
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 running	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fists	punct
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 fists	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 fists	nmod:poss
37	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 running	conj
38	up	up	ADV	_	37 fists	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 head	cc
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 head	nmod:poss
41	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 running	conj
42	back	back	ADV	_	32 running	advmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 flying	cc
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 legs	nmod:poss
45	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 legs	nummod
46	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 flying	nsubj
47	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 running	conj
48	in	in	ADV	_	47 flying	advmod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 out	cc
50	out	out	ADV	_	48 in	conj
51	so	so	ADV	_	52 vigorously	advmod
52	vigorously	vigorously	ADV	_	47 flying	advmod
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 see	mark
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	57 see	nsubj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 see	aux
56	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 see	advmod
57	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 flying	advcl
58	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 see	obj
59	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	63 movement	case
60	of	of	ADP	_	59 because	fixed
61	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	63 movement	det
62	speedy	speedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 movement	amod
63	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 see	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 outran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wind				behind Carl; always property	tree rules
2	outrun	past	Carl	wind		time		tree rules
3	catch up	past	Carl		jumps			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bounce	present	Carl not said here		Cael of the Iron			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cael=Trajectory
5	run	past · progressive	Cael				well property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fly	gerund	Carl's two legs				vigorously property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not see	could	you	legs = leg			because that speedy movement	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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