Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 15

He could leap upwards, but not forwards, and yet he leaped, for in each rise he could see the twinkling waves, the rippling and curling waters.

Who acts: light · What happens: leap, see, curl · To what, where: twinkling waves, rise, waters

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 (light), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leap	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leap	aux
3	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	3 leap	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leaped	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 leaped	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 forwards	advmod
8	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	13 leaped	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leaped	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 leaped	cc
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	13 leaped	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 leaped	nsubj
13	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 leap	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 see	mark
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 rise	case
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 rise	det
18	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 leap	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 waves	det
23	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 waves	compound
24	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 see	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rippling	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rippling	det
27	rippling	rippling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 waves	appos
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 curling	cc
29	curling	curl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 rippling	conj
30	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 curling	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leap	could	light				upwards property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leap	past	light			yet	forwards property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	could	light	the twinkling waves	each rise			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wave=Stimulus
4	curl	gerund	light not said here	waters				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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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