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title: Great whales came heaving from the green-hued void, blowing a wave o… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Great whales came heaving from the green-hued void, blowing a wave of the sea high into the air from their noses and smacking their wide flat tails thunder-ously on the water. Who acts: Great whales. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 8

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Great whales came heaving from the green-hued void, blowing a wave of the sea high into the air from their noses and smacking their wide flat tails thunder-ously on the water.

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**Who acts:** Great whales · **What happens:** come, heave, hue, blow, smack, wave · **To what, where:** hued void, wave, air, wide flat tails, water, sea

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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 (Great whales), 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:pg2892:66:8
# text = Great whales came heaving from the green-hued void, blowing a wave of the sea high into the air from their noses and smacking their wide flat tails thunder-ously on the water.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	heaving	heave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hued	hue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	void	void	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	smacking	smack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
28	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
31	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	ously	ously	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Great whales |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **heave** | gerund | Great whales *not said here* |  |  | the hued void |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from void=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hue** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **blow** | gerund | Great whales *not said here* | a wave of the sea |  | the air |  | from whales's noses; high *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent wave=Patient from nose=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **smack** | gerund | Great whales *not said here* | whales's wide flat tails |  | the water |  | ously *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient thunder=Result |
| 6 | **wave** |  |  | the sea |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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