Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 8

Great whales came heaving from the green-hued void, blowing a wave of the sea high into the air from their noses and smacking their wide flat tails thunder-ously on the water.

Who acts: Great whales · What happens: come, heave, hue, blow, smack, wave · To what, where: hued void, wave, air, wide flat tails, water, sea

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 (Great whales), 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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 whales	amod
2	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	heaving	heave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
5	from	from	ADP	_	10 void	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 void	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hued	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 green	punct
9	hued	hue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 void	amod
10	void	void	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heaving	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blowing	punct
12	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 heaving	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wave	det
14	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blowing	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wave	nmod
18	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 blowing	advmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 air	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blowing	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 noses	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 noses	nmod:poss
24	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 blowing	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 smacking	cc
26	smacking	smack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 heaving	conj
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tails	nmod:poss
28	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tails	amod
29	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tails	amod
30	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 smacking	obj
31	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smacking	obj
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 thunder	punct
33	ously	ously	ADV	_	26 smacking	advmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 water	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 water	det
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smacking	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Great whales				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	heave	gerund	Great whales not said here		the hued void		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from void=Initial_Location
3	hue	participle					tree rules
4	blow	gerund	Great whales not said here	a wave of the sea	the air	from whales's noses; high property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent wave=Patient from nose=Co-Patient
5	smack	gerund	Great whales not said here	whales's wide flat tails	the water	ously property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient thunder=Result
6	wave			the sea			nom wave «event transitive»: of=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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