Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 42

And then as two green-ridged, white-topped, broad-swung, overwhelming, vehement billows of the deep, they met and crashed and sunk into and rolled away from each other; and the noise of these two waves was as the roar of all ocean when the howl of the tempest is drowned in the league-long fury of the surge.

Who acts: skulls, noise, two waves, tempest · What happens: ridge, top, swing, meet, crash, sink · To what, where: two, each, howl, long fury, surge

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skulls, noise, two waves, tempest), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 ridged	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 ridged	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 ridged	mark
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ridged	nsubj:pass
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ridged	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 green	punct
7	ridged	ridge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 topped	punct
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 topped	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 white	punct
11	topped	top	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ridged	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swung	punct
13	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 swung	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 broad	punct
15	swung	swing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 topped	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 overwhelming	punct
17	overwhelming	overwhelming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 swung	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 billows	punct
19	vehement	vehement	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 billows	compound
20	billows	billow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 overwhelming	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 deep	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 deep	det
23	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 billows	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 met	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 met	nsubj
26	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 topped	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 crashed	cc
28	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 met	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sunk	cc
30	sunk	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 met	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	30 sunk	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rolled	cc
33	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sunk	conj
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 rolled	advmod
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 each	case
36	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	33 rolled	obl
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 each	fixed
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 roar	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 roar	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 noise	det
41	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 roar	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 waves	case
43	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	45 waves	det
44	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 waves	nummod
45	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 noise	nmod
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 roar	cop
47	as	as	ADP	_	49 roar	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 roar	det
49	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ridged	parataxis
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 ocean	case
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 ocean	det
52	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 roar	nmod
53	when	when	SCONJ	_	60 drowned	mark
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 howl	det
55	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 drowned	nsubj:pass
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 tempest	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 tempest	det
58	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 howl	nmod
59	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 drowned	aux:pass
60	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 roar	advcl
61	in	in	ADP	_	66 fury	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 fury	det
63	league	league	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 long	compound
64	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 league	punct
65	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 fury	amod
66	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 drowned	obl
67	of	of	ADP	_	69 surge	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 surge	det
69	surge	surge	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 fury	nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ridged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ridge	participle · passive		two		then		tree rules
2	top	participle						vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	swing	participle						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	meet	past	skulls = skull					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	crash	past	skulls = skull not said here					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	sink	past	skulls = skull not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	roll away	past	skulls = skull not said here		each		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from each=Trajectory
8	is	past	the noise of this two waves				as the roar; of all ocean	tree rules
9	drown	present · passive		the howl of the tempest	the long fury of the surge			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
10	noise		this two waves					nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent
11	howl		the tempest					nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=agent
12	infuriate			the surge				nom fury «feeling 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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