Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 14

Then, when days of storm had passed, the low grey clouds shivered and cracked in a thousand places, each grim islet went scudding to the horizon as though terrified by some great breadth, and when they had passed he stared into vast after vast of blue infinity, in the depths of which his eyes stayed and could not pierce, and wherefrom they could scarcely be withdrawn.

Who acts: grim islet, islet, eyes · What happens: pass, shiver, crack, go, scud, stare · To what, where: days, low grey clouds, thousand places, horizon, storms, wherefrom

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grim islet, islet, eyes), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 passed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 passed	advmod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 passed	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 storm	case
6	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 days	nmod
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 passed	aux
8	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 passed	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 clouds	det
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 clouds	amod
12	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 clouds	amod
13	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 passed	obl
14	shivered	shiver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 clouds	acl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cracked	cc
16	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 shivered	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 places	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thousand	det
19	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 places	nummod
20	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shivered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 islet	det
23	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 islet	amod
24	islet	islet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 clouds	parataxis
26	scudding	scud	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 went	xcomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 horizon	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 horizon	det
29	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 scudding	obl
30	as	as	ADV	_	32 terrified	advmod
31	though	though	ADV	_	32 terrified	advmod
32	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 scudding	ccomp
33	by	by	ADP	_	36 breadth	case
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 breadth	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 breadth	amod
36	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 terrified	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 passed	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 passed	cc
39	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 passed	advmod
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 passed	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 passed	aux
42	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 stared	advcl
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 stared	nsubj
44	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 went	conj
45	into	into	ADP	_	46 vast	case
46	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 stared	obl
47	after	after	ADP	_	48 vast	case
48	vast	vast	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 stared	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 infinity	case
50	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 infinity	amod
51	infinity	infinity	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 vast	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 depths	punct
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 depths	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 depths	det
55	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 stared	parataxis
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 which	case
57	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	60 stayed	obl
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 eyes	nmod:poss
59	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 stayed	nsubj
60	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 depths	parataxis
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 pierce	cc
62	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 pierce	aux
63	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	64 pierce	advmod
64	pierce	pierce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 stayed	conj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 withdrawn	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 withdrawn	cc
67	wherefrom	wherefrom	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 withdrawn	nsubj:pass
68	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 withdrawn	nsubj:pass
69	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	72 withdrawn	aux
70	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	72 withdrawn	advmod
71	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	72 withdrawn	aux:pass
72	withdrawn	withdraw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	60 stayed	conj
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		days of storm		then	the low grey clouds obl	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	shiver	participle		the low grey clouds not said here	thousand places			vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	crack	participle						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	each grim islet					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	scud	gerund	each grim islet not said here		the horizon			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to horizon=Destination
6	pass	past · perfect · passive		storms = storm				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
7	stare	past	islet			after vast of blue infinity	into vast	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into vast=Theme
8	stay	past	islet's eyes				of the depths	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	not pierce	could	islet's eyes not said here					vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	withdraw	could · passive		wherefrom			scarcely property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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