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title: My nose touched air and spun from it as from fire, and I dived with… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My nose touched air and spun from it as from fire, and I dived with all my might against the bottom of the net, holding yet to the water, loving it, mad with terror that I must quit that loveliness. Who acts: nose, I, terror. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI, with its 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 6

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My nose touched air and spun from it as from fire, and I dived with all my might against the bottom of the net, holding yet to the water, loving it, mad with terror that I must quit that loveliness.

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**Who acts:** nose, I, terror · **What happens:** touch, spin, dive, hold, love, quit · **To what, where:** air, nose, water, loveliness

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nose, I, terror), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:12:6
# text = My nose touched air and spun from it as from fire, and I dived with all my might against the bottom of the net, holding yet to the water, loving it, mad with terror that I must quit that loveliness.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dived	dive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
28	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	loving	love	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	quit	quit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl:relcl	_	_
43	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	loveliness	loveliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past | My nose | air |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme air=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **spin** | participle | My nose *not said here* |  |  | nose |  | from fire | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory |
| 3 | **dive** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **hold** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  | yet | to the water | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **love** | gerund | I *not said here* | water |  |  |  | mad *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **quit** | must | terror | that loveliness |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loveliness=Source |

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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.

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**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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