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title: It was a water of villainous depth and of detestable wetness; of ugl… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a water of villainous depth and of detestable wetness; of ugly hurrying and of desolate cavernous sound. Who acts: road. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 27

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It was a water of villainous depth and of detestable wetness; of ugly hurrying and of desolate cavernous sound.

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**Who acts:** road · **What happens:** be, desolate · **To what, where:** water, cavernous sound

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road), 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:pg2892:86:27
# text = It was a water of villainous depth and of detestable wetness; of ugly hurrying and of desolate cavernous sound.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	villainous	villainous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	detestable	detestable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wetness	wetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hurrying	hurrying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	cavernous	cavernous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | road | a water |  |  |  | of villainous depth and detestable wetness | tree rules |
| 2 | **desolate** | infinitive |  | cavernous sound |  |  |  | of ugly hurrying | tree rules |

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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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