Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 16

“Here now was ease in ten-yard springings, with a swinging head, with the rise and fall of a swallow, with the curve and flow and urge of an otter of the sea.

Who acts: swallow · What happens: be, swing, rise · To what, where: ease, yard springings

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallow), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 ease	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 now	advmod
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 ease	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ease	cop
5	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 springings	case
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 yard	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 ten	punct
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 springings	compound
10	springings	springing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ease	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 head	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 head	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 head	det
14	swinging	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 head	amod
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ease	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rise	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 rise	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rise	det
19	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ease	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fall	cc
21	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rise	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 swallow	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 swallow	det
24	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rise	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 curve	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 curve	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 curve	det
28	curve	curve	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 swallow	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 flow	cc
30	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 curve	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 urge	cc
32	urge	urge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 curve	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 otter	case
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 otter	det
35	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 urge	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 sea	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sea	det
38	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 otter	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ease	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		ease and a swinging head and the rise of a swallow and the curve and flow and urge of a otter of the sea and fall	yard springings	now	tree rules
2	swing in a quote	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	rise in a quote		a swallow and the curve and flow and urge of a otter of the sea				nom rise «event intransitive»: of=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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