Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 39

When they got to the middle of the bridge it broke under them, and they were precipitated into that boiling yellow flood.

Who acts: gods, Da’v · What happens: get, break, precipitate, boil · To what, where: bridge, gods, boiling yellow flood

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gods, Da’v), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bridge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bridge	det
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 broke	nsubj
11	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bridge	acl:relcl
12	under	under	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 broke	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 precipitated	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 precipitated	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 precipitated	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 precipitated	aux:pass
18	precipitated	precipitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 got	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	23 flood	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 flood	nsubj
21	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 flood	amod
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flood	amod
23	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 precipitated	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	gods = god			to the middle of the bridge result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to middle=Result
2	break	past	Da’v = da'v	the bridge not said here		under gods = god	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bridge=Patient
3	precipitate	past · passive		gods = god	boiling yellow flood		tree rules
4	boil	gerund					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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