Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 5

When these clouds met the world went dark for a space, and there fell from the sky a shower of hailstones, so large that each man wondered at their size, and so swift and heavy that the women and young people of the host screamed from the pain of the blows they received.

Who acts: clouds, world, man, women · What happens: meet, go, fall, wonder, swift, scream · To what, where: shower, sky, size, pain, blows

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds, world, man, women), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 met	mark
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 clouds	det
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 space	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 space	det
11	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fell	cc
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 fell	advmod
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 sky	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sky	det
18	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 shower	det
20	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 hailstones	case
22	hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shower	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 large	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 large	advmod
25	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fell	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 wondered	mark
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wondered	nsubj
29	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 large	advcl
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 size	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 size	nmod:poss
32	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wondered	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 swift	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 swift	cc
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 swift	advmod
36	swift	swift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 large	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 heavy	cc
38	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 swift	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 screamed	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 women	det
41	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 screamed	nsubj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 people	cc
43	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 people	amod
44	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 women	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 host	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 host	det
47	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 people	nmod
48	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 heavy	advcl
49	from	from	ADP	_	51 pain	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 pain	det
51	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 screamed	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 blows	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 blows	det
54	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 pain	nmod
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 received	nsubj
56	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 blows	acl:relcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	this clouds				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the world			for a space; dark property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for space=Beneficiary
3	fall	past	the world not said here	a shower of hailstones	the sky; there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial_Location
4	wonder speech: ask	past	each man		clouds's size		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	swift	infinitive					tree rules
6	scream speech: express	past	the women and young people of the host		the pain of the blows		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	receive	past	clouds = cloud	the blows not said here			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme
8	pain			the blows			nom pain «state transitive»: of=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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