Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 18

Then they were hurled from these dizzy tops to the flat, moaning gulf, to the glassy, inky horror that swirled and whirled between ten waves.

Who acts: glassy inky horror · What happens: hurl, moan, swirl, whirl · To what, where: cliffs, dizzy tops, ten waves

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glassy inky horror), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:102): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hurled	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hurled	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hurled	aux:pass
4	hurled	hurl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 tops	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 tops	det
7	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tops	amod
8	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurled	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	14 gulf	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gulf	det
11	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gulf	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 moaning	punct
13	moaning	moan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 gulf	amod
14	gulf	gulf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 horror	punct
16	to	to	ADP	_	21 horror	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 horror	det
18	glassy	glassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 horror	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 inky	punct
20	inky	inky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 horror	amod
21	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurled	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 swirled	nsubj
23	swirled	swirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 horror	acl:relcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 whirled	cc
25	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 swirled	conj
26	between	between	ADP	_	28 waves	case
27	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 waves	nummod
28	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 whirled	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hurled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurl	past · passive		cliffs = cliff	this dizzy tops	then	to the flat moaning gulf; to the glassy inky horror	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from top=Initial_Location to gulf=Destination
2	moan	gerund						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	swirl	past	the glassy inky horror					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	whirl	past	the glassy inky horror not said here		ten waves			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme between wave=Trajectory

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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