Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 190

I began to draw his spear and every breath that he drew I thought I would be down his throat, and when his breath came out I was back again just as far.

Who acts: I, weapon, breath · What happens: begin, draw, think, be, come out · To what, where: spear, throat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, weapon, breath), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 draw	mark
4	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 spear	nmod:poss
6	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draw	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 breath	cc
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 breath	det
9	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spear	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 drew	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 drew	nsubj
12	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 draw	advcl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 drew	conj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 throat	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 throat	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 throat	cop
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 be	compound:prt
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 throat	nmod:poss
20	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thought	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 came	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 breath	nmod:poss
25	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 back	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 back	cop
30	back	back	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
31	again	again	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
32	just	just	ADV	_	34 far	advmod
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 far	advmod
34	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 came	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	I				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	draw	to-infinitive	I not said here	weapon's spear and every breath			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme
3	draw	past	weapon				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	past	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	would	I	weapon's throat			tree rules
6	come out	past	weapon's breath		again	far, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
7	is	past	I			back property	tree rules

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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