Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 27
It was a water of villainous depth and of detestable wetness; of ugly hurrying and of desolate cavernous sound.
Who acts: road · What happens: be, desolate · To what, where: water, cavernous sound
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 water | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 water | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 depth | case |
| 6 | villainous | villainous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 depth | amod |
| 7 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 water | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wetness | cc |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wetness | case |
| 10 | detestable | detestable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wetness | amod |
| 11 | wetness | wetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 depth | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 desolate | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hurrying | case |
| 14 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hurrying | amod |
| 15 | hurrying | hurrying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 desolate | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 desolate | cc |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 desolate | mark |
| 18 | desolate | desolate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 water | parataxis |
| 19 | cavernous | cavernous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sound | amod |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 desolate | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 water | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | road | a water | of villainous depth and detestable wetness | tree rules | |||
| 2 | desolate | infinitive | cavernous sound | of ugly hurrying | tree rules |
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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