--- title: I could have loosened my frame and been swept away; I could have sle… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I could have loosened my frame and been swept away; I could have slept and been drifted and wafted away; swinging on grey-green billows that had turned from the land and were heaving and mounting and surging to the far blue water. Who acts: I, grey green billows. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/10/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter IX](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/10/) / 15 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 15 I could have loosened my frame and been swept away; I could have slept and been drifted and wafted away; swinging on grey-green billows that had turned from the land and were heaving and mounting and surging to the far blue water. **Who acts:** I, grey green billows · **What happens:** loosen, sweep away, sleep, drift, waft away, swing · **To what, where:** frame, grey green billows, land This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, grey green billows), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:10:15 # text = I could have loosened my frame and been swept away; I could have slept and been drifted and wafted away; swinging on grey-green billows that had turned from the land and were heaving and mounting and surging to the far blue water. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux _ _ 4 loosened loosen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 frame frame NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 swept sweep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux _ _ 15 slept sleep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 drifted drift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 wafted waft VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 23 swinging swing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 billows billow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 heaving heave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 mounting mount VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 conj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 surging surge VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 conj _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **loosen** | could · perfect | I | my frame | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent frame=Patient | | 2 | **sweep away** | participle · passive | I *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **sleep** | could · perfect | I | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **drift** | participle · passive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V» | | 5 | **waft away** | participle | I *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **swing** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | grey green billows | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on billow=Trajectory | | 7 | **turn** | past · perfect | grey green billows | | | the land | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from land=Trajectory | | 8 | **heave** | past · progressive | grey green billows *not said here* | | | | | | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **mount** | gerund | grey green billows *not said here* | | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **surge** | gerund | grey green billows *not said here* | | | | | to the far blue water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/10/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/10/16/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/10/)