Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 6

I soared, I swooped; I hung, motionless as a living stone, over the abyss; I lived in joy and slept in peace, and had my fill of the sweetness of life.

Who acts: I · What happens: soar, swoop, hang, live, sleep, have · To what, where: abyss, joy, peace, fill

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 soared	nsubj
2	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swooped	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 swooped	nsubj
5	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 soared	conj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 hung	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 hung	nsubj
8	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 soared	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 motionless	punct
10	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hung	conj
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 stone	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stone	det
13	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stone	compound
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 motionless	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 abyss	punct
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 abyss	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 abyss	det
18	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lived	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 lived	nsubj
21	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 soared	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 joy	case
23	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lived	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 slept	cc
25	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lived	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 peace	case
27	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slept	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 soared	conj
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fill	nmod:poss
32	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 sweetness	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sweetness	det
35	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fill	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 life	case
37	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sweetness	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 soared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	soar	past	I			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	swoop	past	I			tree rules
3	hang	past	I		the abyss	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over abyss=Location
4	live	past	I		joy	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in joy=Location
5	sleep	past	I not said here		peace	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in peace=Location
6	have	past	I not said here	my fill of the sweetness of life		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=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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