Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 8

Then Mongan puffed out his cheeks till his face looked like a bladder, and he blew a magic breath at the hag, so that she seemed to be surrounded by a fog, and when she looked through that breath everything seemed to be different to what she had thought.

Who acts: Mongan, face, hag, fog, everything · What happens: puff out, look, blow, seem, surround, be · To what, where: cheeks, magic breath

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, face, hag, fog), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 puffed	advmod
2	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 puffed	nsubj
3	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 puffed	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cheeks	nmod:poss
6	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 puffed	obj
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 looked	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	nsubj
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 puffed	advcl
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 bladder	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bladder	det
13	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 blew	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 blew	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 blew	nsubj
17	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 puffed	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 breath	det
19	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 breath	compound
20	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blew	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 hag	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hag	det
23	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blew	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seemed	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 seemed	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seemed	nsubj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blew	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 surrounded	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 surrounded	aux:pass
31	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 seemed	xcomp
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 fog	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 fog	det
34	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 surrounded	obl:agent
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 looked	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 looked	cc
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 looked	advmod
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 looked	nsubj
39	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 puffed	conj
40	through	through	SCONJ	_	44 seemed	mark
41	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 everything	det
42	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 everything	compound
43	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	44 seemed	nsubj
44	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 looked	ccomp
45	to	to	PART	_	47 different	mark
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 different	cop
47	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 seemed	xcomp
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 what	case
49	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 different	obl
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 thought	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 thought	aux
52	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 what	acl:relcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 puffed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	puff out	past	Mongan	servant's cheeks	then		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cheek=Source
2	look	past	servant's face			like a bladder	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	blow	past	face	a magic breath		at the hag	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent breath=Patient
4	seem	past	hag				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	surround	to-infinitive · passive	a fog				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	look	past	hag				tree rules
7	seem	past	everything				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
8	is	to-infinitive	everything not said here			different property	tree rules
9	think speech: other	past · perfect	hag				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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