Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 19

At times a wave leaped howling under a ship, and with a buffet dashed it into air, and chased it upwards with thunder stroke on stroke, and followed again, close as a chasing wolf, trying with hammering on hammering to beat in the wide-wombed bottom and suck out the frightened lives through one black gape.

Who acts: frightened · What happens: leap, howl, dash, chase, follow, try · To what, where: wave, ship, buffet, air, wombed bottom, one black gape

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 (frightened), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 times	case
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leaped	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wave	det
4	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaped	nsubj:pass
5	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	howling	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 leaped	xcomp
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 ship	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ship	det
9	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 howling	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dashed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dashed	cc
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 buffet	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 buffet	det
14	buffet	buffet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dashed	obl
15	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 leaped	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dashed	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 air	case
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dashed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 chased	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 chased	cc
21	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 leaped	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 chased	obj
23	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	21 chased	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 stroke	case
25	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stroke	compound
26	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chased	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 stroke	case
28	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stroke	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 followed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 followed	cc
31	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 leaped	parataxis
32	again	again	ADV	_	31 followed	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 close	punct
34	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leaped	conj
35	as	as	ADP	_	38 wolf	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 wolf	det
37	chasing	chasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wolf	compound
38	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 close	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 trying	punct
40	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 leaped	advcl
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 hammering	case
42	hammering	hammering	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 trying	obl
43	on	on	SCONJ	_	44 hammering	mark
44	hammering	hammer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 trying	advcl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 beat	mark
46	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 hammering	xcomp
47	in	in	ADP	_	52 bottom	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 bottom	det
49	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 wombed	compound
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 wide	punct
51	wombed	womb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 bottom	amod
52	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 beat	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 suck	cc
54	suck	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 beat	conj
55	out	out	ADP	_	54 suck	compound:prt
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 frightened	det
57	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 lives	nsubj
58	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 suck	parataxis
59	through	through	ADP	_	62 gape	case
60	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 gape	nummod
61	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 gape	amod
62	gape	gape	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 lives	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 leaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leap	participle · passive		a wave		time		tree rules
2	howl	gerund			a ship			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ship=Location
3	dash	past		buffet			into air result; with a buffet	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with buffet=Instrument into air=Result
4	chase	past		buffet			with thunder stroke on stroke; upwards property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	follow	participle				again		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	try	gerund					with hammering	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	hammer	gerund						tree rules
8	beat	to-infinitive			the wombed bottom			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bottom=Location
9	womb	participle						tree rules
10	suck out	present						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	live	present	the frightened		one black gape			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gape=Location

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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