Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 7

He climbed an icy mountain, the cold breath of which seemed to slip into his body and chip off inside of his bones, and there, until he mastered the sort of climbing on ice, for each step that he took upwards he slipped back ten steps.

Who acts: head, cold breath, sort · What happens: climb, seem, slip, chip off, master, take · To what, where: icy mountain, body, bones, sort, ice, ten steps

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, cold breath, sort), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mountain	det
4	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mountain	amod
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 breath	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 breath	det
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 breath	amod
9	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 breath	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 slip	mark
14	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seemed	xcomp
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 body	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 body	nmod:poss
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slip	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 chip	cc
19	chip	chip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 slip	conj
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 chip	compound:prt
21	inside	inside	ADP	_	24 bones	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	21 inside	fixed
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bones	nmod:poss
24	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 chip	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 there	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 there	cc
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 climbed	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 mastered	punct
29	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 mastered	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 mastered	nsubj
31	mastered	master	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 climbed	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sort	det
33	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mastered	obj
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 climbing	mark
35	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 sort	acl
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 ice	case
37	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 climbing	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 step	punct
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 step	case
40	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	41 step	det
41	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mastered	obl
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 took	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 took	nsubj
44	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 mastered	advcl
45	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	44 took	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 slipped	nsubj
47	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 took	parataxis
48	back	back	ADV	_	47 slipped	advmod
49	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 steps	nummod
50	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 slipped	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	past	head	a icy mountain	there	the cold breath obl	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme
2	seem	past	the cold breath				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	slip	to-infinitive	the cold breath not said here		head's body		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	chip off	present	the cold breath not said here		head's bones		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	master	past	head	the sort		for each step	tree rules
6	climb	gerund	the sort not said here		ice		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Trajectory
7	take	past	head			upwards property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	slip back	past	head	ten steps			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent step=Patient

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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