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title: Wild storms howled by him so that the boat climbed painfully to the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild storms howled by him so that the boat climbed painfully to the sky on a mile-high wave, balanced for a tense moment on its level top, and sped down the glassy side as a stone goes furiously from a sling. Who acts: Wild storms, stone. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 11

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Wild storms howled by him so that the boat climbed painfully to the sky on a mile-high wave, balanced for a tense moment on its level top, and sped down the glassy side as a stone goes furiously from a sling.

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**Who acts:** Wild storms, stone · **What happens:** howl, climb, balance, speed down, go · **To what, where:** Wild storms, mile high wave, glassy side, sling

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wild storms, stone), 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:pg2892:66:11
# text = Wild storms howled by him so that the boat climbed painfully to the sky on a mile-high wave, balanced for a tense moment on its level top, and sped down the glassy side as a stone goes furiously from a sling.
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	howled	howl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	painfully	painfully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	balanced	balance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	tense	tense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	level	level	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
34	down	down	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	glassy	glassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
42	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	sling	sling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **howl** | participle |  | Wild storms *not said here* |  |  |  | by fish; so the boat | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by he=Location |
| 2 | **climb** | past | Wild storms |  |  | a mile high wave |  | to the sky; painfully *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sky=Destination |
| 3 | **balance** | participle |  | a mile high wave *not said here* |  |  | moment |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **speed down** | past |  | the glassy side |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | present | a stone |  |  | a sling |  | furiously *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sling=Initial\_Location |

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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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