--- title: “When all are asleep Aillen mac Midna blows a dart of fire out of hi… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “When all are asleep Aillen mac Midna blows a dart of fire out of his mouth, and everything that is touched by that fire is destroyed, and he can blow his fire to an incredible distance and to any direction.” Who acts: asleep Aillen mac, fire, mac. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter XIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/) / 36 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 36 “When all are asleep Aillen mac Midna blows a dart of fire out of his mouth, and everything that is touched by that fire is destroyed, and he can blow his fire to an incredible distance and to any direction.” **Who acts:** asleep Aillen mac, fire, mac · **What happens:** be, blow, touch, destroy, fire · **To what, where:** dart, mouth, everything, fire, incredible distance This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (asleep Aillen mac, fire, mac), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:26:36 # text = “When all are asleep Aillen mac Midna blows a dart of fire out of his mouth, and everything that is touched by that fire is destroyed, and he can blow his fire to an incredible distance and to any direction.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 When when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 Aillen Aillen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 mac mac NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 Midna Midna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 9 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dart dart NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 out out ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 20 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 parataxis _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 incredible incredible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 43 det _ _ 43 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **blow** *in a quote* | present | all asleep Aillen mac | a dart of fire | | mac's mouth | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent dart=Patient | | 3 | **touch** *in a quote* | present · passive | that fire | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | | 4 | **destroy** *in a quote* | present · passive | | everything | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **blow** *in a quote* | can | mac | mac's fire | a incredible distance and any direction | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fire=Patient to distance=Recipient | | 6 | **fire** *in a quote* | | mac | | | | | | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/37/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/)