Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 4

It all went by him so suddenly that he lost his breath with it, but he came to himself on the spot, and put an ear on himself, listening to what they would say.

Who acts: sound, whirlwind, sheehogues · What happens: go, lose, come, put, listen, say · To what, where: breath, whirlwind, spot, ear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, whirlwind, sheehogues), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 suddenly	advmod
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 lost	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	nsubj
10	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 breath	nmod:poss
12	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 came	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 spot	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 spot	det
23	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	conj
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 ear	det
28	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 himself	case
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 put	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 listening	punct
32	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 put	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 what	case
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 listening	obl
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 say	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 say	aux
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 what	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	sound				by whirlwind; suddenly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by he=Location
2	lose	past	whirlwind	whirlwind's breath			with sound	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Eventuality
3	come	past	whirlwind		whirlwind	the spot		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location
4	put	infinitive	whirlwind not said here	a ear			on whirlwind	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme on himself=Destination
5	listen	gerund	whirlwind not said here					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
6	say speech: assert	would	sheehogues = sheehogue					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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