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title: “A storm arose, and when I looked again from my tall cliff I saw tha… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “A storm arose, and when I looked again from my tall cliff I saw that great fleet rolling as in a giant’s hand. Who acts: storm, Finnian, great fleet. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 16

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“A storm arose, and when I looked again from my tall cliff I saw that great fleet rolling as in a giant’s hand.

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**Who acts:** storm, Finnian, great fleet · **What happens:** arise, look, see, roll · **To what, where:** great fleet

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, Finnian, great fleet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2892:6:16
# text = “A storm arose, and when I looked again from my tall cliff I saw that great fleet rolling as in a giant’s hand.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** *in a quote* | past | a storm |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | past | Finnian |  |  |  | again | from my tall cliff | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from cliff=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | past | Finnian | that great fleet |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fleet=Stimulus |
| 4 | **roll** *in a quote* | gerund | that great fleet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a giant's hand | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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