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title: The beasts that were ranging beside his path dropped dead from concu… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The beasts that were ranging beside his path dropped dead from concussion, and the steam that snored from his nose blew birds into bits and made great lumps of cloud fall out of the sky. Who acts: beasts, steam, great lumps. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its de
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 39

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The beasts that were ranging beside his path dropped dead from concussion, and the steam that snored from his nose blew birds into bits and made great lumps of cloud fall out of the sky.

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**Who acts:** beasts, steam, great lumps · **What happens:** range, drop, snore, blow, make, fall · **To what, where:** path, concussion, nose, birds, bits, sky

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beasts, steam, great lumps), 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:pg2892:52:39
# text = The beasts that were ranging beside his path dropped dead from concussion, and the steam that snored from his nose blew birds into bits and made great lumps of cloud fall out of the sky.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	ranging	range	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	concussion	concussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	snored	snore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
23	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	lumps	lump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **range** | past · progressive | the beasts |  |  | Carl's path |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** | past | the beasts |  |  | concussion |  | dead *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from concussion=Trajectory |
| 3 | **snore** | past | the steam |  |  | Carl's nose |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **blow** | past | the steam | birds |  | bits |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent bird=Material into bit=Product |
| 5 | **make** | past | the steam *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **fall** | present | great lumps of cloud |  |  | the sky |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out sky=Location |

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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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