Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 15

There are coiling weeds down there, the robber counselled him; there are thin, tough, snaky binders that will trip you and grip you, that will pull you and will not let you go again until you are drowned; until you are swaying and swinging away below, with outstretched arms, with outstretched legs, with a face all stares and smiles and jockeyings, gripped in those leathery arms, until there is no more to be gripped of you even by them.

Who acts: coiling weeds, robber, thin tough snaky binders, that, you, more · What happens: be, coil, counsell, trip, grip, pull · To what, where: Fionn, you, stares, leathery arms

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coiling weeds, robber, thin tough snaky binders, that), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	coiling	coil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 weeds	amod
4	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	down	down	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 are	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 counselled	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 robber	det
9	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 counselled	nsubj
10	counselled	counsell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 are	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 counselled	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 are	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 are	expl
14	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 counselled	ccomp
15	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 binders	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thin	punct
17	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 binders	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tough	punct
19	snaky	snaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 binders	amod
20	binders	binder	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 are	nsubj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 trip	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 trip	aux
23	trip	trip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 binders	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 trip	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 grip	cc
26	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 trip	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 grip	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pull	punct
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 pull	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 pull	aux
31	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 grip	advcl
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 pull	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 let	cc
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 let	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 let	advmod
36	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 pull	conj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 let	obj
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 let	xcomp
39	again	again	ADV	_	38 go	advmod
40	until	until	SCONJ	_	43 drowned	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 drowned	nsubj:pass
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 drowned	aux:pass
43	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 go	advcl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 swaying	punct
45	until	until	SCONJ	_	48 swaying	mark
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 swaying	nsubj
47	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 swaying	aux
48	swaying	sway	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 are	advcl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 swinging	cc
50	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 swaying	conj
51	away	away	ADV	_	50 swinging	advmod
52	below	below	ADV	_	50 swinging	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 arms	punct
54	with	with	ADP	_	56 arms	case
55	outstretched	outstretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 arms	amod
56	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 swaying	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 legs	punct
58	with	with	ADP	_	60 legs	case
59	outstretched	outstretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	60 legs	amod
60	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 arms	conj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 face	punct
62	with	with	ADP	_	64 face	case
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 face	det
64	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 swaying	obl
65	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	66 stares	det
66	stares	stare	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 face	nmod
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 smiles	cc
68	smiles	smile	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 stares	conj
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 jockeyings	cc
70	jockeyings	jockeying	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 stares	conj
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 gripped	punct
72	gripped	grip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	66 stares	acl
73	in	in	ADP	_	76 arms	case
74	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	76 arms	det
75	leathery	leathery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	76 arms	amod
76	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	72 gripped	obl
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 is	punct
78	until	until	SCONJ	_	80 is	mark
79	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	80 is	expl
80	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 are	conj
81	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	82 more	det
82	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	80 is	nsubj
83	to	to	PART	_	85 gripped	mark
84	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	85 gripped	aux:pass
85	gripped	grip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	82 more	advcl
86	of	of	ADP	_	87 you	case
87	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	85 gripped	obl
88	even	even	ADV	_	90 them	advmod
89	by	by	ADP	_	90 them	case
90	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	85 gripped	obl
91	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	coiling weeds		there; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	coil	gerund						vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
3	counsell	past	the robber	Fionn				tree rules
4	does	present	thin tough snaky binders		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	trip	future	that	you				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Agent
6	grip	present	that not said here	you				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Experiencer
7	pull	future	that	you				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Result
8	not let	future	that not said here	you				tree rules
9	go	infinitive	you not said here			again		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	drown	present · passive		you				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
11	sway	present · progressive	you				with outstretched arms and outstretched legs; with a face all stares and smiles and jockeyings	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	swing away	gerund	you not said here				away, below property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
13	outstretch	participle						tree rules
14	grip	participle		all stares and smiles and jockeyings not said here	that leathery arms			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
15	be	present	no more		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
16	grip	to-infinitive · passive	binders = binder				of you	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

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