Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 3

I was so alone that the sound of a bird in flight, or the creaking of a dew-drenched bough, whipped me to cover as a rabbit is scared to his burrow.

Who acts: I, sound, rabbit · What happens: be, creak, drench, whip, cover · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sound, rabbit), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 alone	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alone	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 alone	advmod
4	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 whipped	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sound	det
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 whipped	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bird	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sound	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 flight	case
12	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bird	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bough	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 bough	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bough	det
16	creaking	creak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 bough	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	22 bough	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bough	det
19	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drenched	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 dew	punct
21	drenched	drench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 bough	amod
22	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sound	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bough	punct
24	whipped	whip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alone	advcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 whipped	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 cover	mark
27	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 whipped	advcl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 scared	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 rabbit	det
30	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 scared	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 scared	cop
32	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cover	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 burrow	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 burrow	nmod:poss
35	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 scared	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 alone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		alone property	tree rules
2	creak	gerund				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drench	participle				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	whip	past	the sound of a bird in flight or the drenched bough	me		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent i=Material
5	cover	to-infinitive	the sound of a bird in flight or the drenched bough not said here			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	a rabbit		to rabbit's burrow; scared 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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