--- title: And then as two green-ridged, white-topped, broad-swung, overwhelmin… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And then as two green-ridged, white-topped, broad-swung, overwhelming, vehement billows of the deep, they met and crashed and sunk into and rolled away from each other; and the noise of these two waves was as the roar of all ocean when the howl of the tempest is drowned in the league-long fury of th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/71/42/) [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 X](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/71/) / 42 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 42 And then as two green-ridged, white-topped, broad-swung, overwhelming, vehement billows of the deep, they met and crashed and sunk into and rolled away from each other; and the noise of these two waves was as the roar of all ocean when the howl of the tempest is drowned in the league-long fury of the surge. **Who acts:** skulls, noise, two waves, tempest · **What happens:** ridge, top, swing, meet, crash, sink · **To what, where:** two, each, howl, long fury, surge This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skulls, noise, two waves, tempest), 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:pg2892:71:42 # text = And then as two green-ridged, white-topped, broad-swung, overwhelming, vehement billows of the deep, they met and crashed and sunk into and rolled away from each other; and the noise of these two waves was as the roar of all ocean when the howl of the tempest is drowned in the league-long fury of the surge. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ridged ridge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 topped top VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 swung swing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 overwhelming overwhelming ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 vehement vehement NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 billows billow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 crashed crash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 sunk sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 30 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 34 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 33 obl _ _ 37 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 49 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 45 det _ _ 44 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 45 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 47 as as ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 roar roar NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 52 det _ _ 52 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ _ 53 when when SCONJ WRB _ 60 mark _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 howl howl NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nsubj:pass _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 tempest tempest NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod _ _ 59 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 60 aux:pass _ _ 60 drowned drown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 49 advcl _ _ 61 in in ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 63 league league NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 64 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 63 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 66 amod _ _ 66 fury fury NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obl _ _ 67 of of ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 69 surge surge NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ridge** | participle · passive | | two | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **top** | participle | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **swing** | participle | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **meet** | past | skulls *= skull* | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **crash** | past | skulls *= skull* *not said here* | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **sink** | past | skulls *= skull* *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **roll away** | past | skulls *= skull* *not said here* | | | each | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from each=Trajectory | | 8 | **is** | past | the noise of this two waves | | | | | as the roar; of all ocean | tree rules | | 9 | **drown** | present · passive | | the howl of the tempest | | the long fury of the surge | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 10 | **noise** | | this two waves | | | | | | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 11 | **howl** | | the tempest | | | | | | nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 12 | **infuriate** | | | the surge | | | | | nom fury «feeling transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/71/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/71/43/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/71/)