Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 4

“I saw the monsters of the uttermost ocean go heaving by; and the long lithe brutes that are toothed to their tails: and below, where gloom dipped down on gloom, vast, livid tangles that coiled and uncoiled, and lapsed down steeps and hells of the sea where even the salmon could not go.

Who acts: I, monsters, gloom, vast livid tangles, salmon · What happens: see, go, heave, tooth, dip down, coil · To what, where: long lithe brutes, gloom, steeps · Speech: someone speaks here

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, monsters, gloom, vast livid tangles), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 monsters	det
5	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 ocean	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ocean	det
8	uttermost	uttermost	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ocean	compound
9	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 monsters	nmod
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	ccomp
11	heaving	heave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 go	xcomp
12	by	by	ADP	_	11 heaving	fixed
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 brutes	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 brutes	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 brutes	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brutes	amod
17	lithe	lithe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brutes	amod
18	brutes	brute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	conj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 toothed	nsubj:pass
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 toothed	aux:pass
21	toothed	tooth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 brutes	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 tails	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tails	nmod:poss
24	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 toothed	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 below	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 below	cc
27	below	below	ADV	_	18 brutes	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dipped	punct
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 dipped	advmod
30	gloom	gloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dipped	nsubj
31	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 below	parataxis
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 dipped	compound:prt
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 gloom	case
34	gloom	gloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dipped	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tangles	punct
36	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tangles	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 vast	punct
38	livid	livid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tangles	amod
39	tangles	tangle	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gloom	appos
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 coiled	nsubj
41	coiled	coil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 tangles	acl:relcl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 uncoiled	cc
43	uncoiled	uncoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 coiled	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 lapsed	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 lapsed	cc
46	lapsed	lapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 saw	conj
47	down	down	ADP	_	46 lapsed	compound:prt
48	steeps	steep	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 lapsed	obj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 hells	cc
50	hells	hell	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 steeps	conj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 sea	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 sea	det
53	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hells	nmod
54	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	60 go	advmod
55	even	even	ADV	_	57 salmon	advmod
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 salmon	det
57	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 go	nsubj
58	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 go	aux
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 go	advmod
60	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 sea	acl:relcl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go in a quote	present	the monsters of the uttermost ocean				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	heave in a quote	gerund	the monsters of the uttermost ocean not said here				vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	tooth in a quote	present · passive		the long lithe brutes		to monsters's tails	tree rules
5	dip down in a quote	past	gloom		gloom		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on gloom=Trajectory
6	coil in a quote	past	vast livid tangles				vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
7	uncoil in a quote	past	vast livid tangles not said here				vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8	lapse down in a quote	participle	I not said here	steeps and hells of the sea			tree rules
9	not go in a quote	could	the salmon				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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