Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 15

I could have loosened my frame and been swept away; I could have slept and been drifted and wafted away; swinging on grey-green billows that had turned from the land and were heaving and mounting and surging to the far blue water.

Who acts: I, grey green billows · What happens: loosen, sweep away, sleep, drift, waft away, swing · To what, where: frame, grey green billows, land

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, grey green billows), 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	4 loosened	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 loosened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 loosened	aux
4	loosened	loosen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 frame	nmod:poss
6	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loosened	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 swept	cc
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 swept	aux:pass
9	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 loosened	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 swept	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 slept	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 slept	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 slept	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 slept	aux
15	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 loosened	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drifted	cc
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 drifted	aux:pass
18	drifted	drift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 slept	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wafted	cc
20	wafted	waft	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 drifted	conj
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 wafted	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 swinging	punct
23	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 loosened	advcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	28 billows	case
25	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 billows	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 grey	punct
27	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 billows	amod
28	billows	billow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 swinging	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 turned	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 turned	aux
31	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 billows	acl:relcl
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 land	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 land	det
34	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turned	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 heaving	cc
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 heaving	aux
37	heaving	heave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 turned	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 mounting	cc
39	mounting	mount	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 heaving	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 surging	cc
41	surging	surge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 heaving	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	46 water	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 water	det
44	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 water	amod
45	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 water	amod
46	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 surging	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 loosened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	loosen	could · perfect	I	my frame			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent frame=Patient
2	sweep away	participle · passive	I not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»
3	sleep	could · perfect	I				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drift	participle · passive	I not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»
5	waft away	participle	I not said here			away property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	swing	gerund	I not said here		grey green billows		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on billow=Trajectory
7	turn	past · perfect	grey green billows		the land		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from land=Trajectory
8	heave	past · progressive	grey green billows not said here				vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	mount	gerund	grey green billows not said here				vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
10	surge	gerund	grey green billows not said here			to the far blue water	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

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