--- title: From below, unseen in the blackness of the deep night shadows, the w… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: From below, unseen in the blackness of the deep night shadows, the water roared and boiled round the jagged rocks—he could picture the place as he knew it, only ten times more pitiless and forbidding in the visionless darkness; the wind soughed through the gorge with fearsome sighs, and rustlings an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/89/) [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/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/) / 89 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 89 From below, unseen in the blackness of the deep night shadows, the water roared and boiled round the jagged rocks—he could picture the place as he knew it, only ten times more pitiless and forbidding in the visionless darkness; the wind soughed through the gorge with fearsome sighs, and rustlings and whisperings, and the bushes and grasses that grew in the ledges of the cliffs seemed to him like living creatures that danced and beckoned, shadowy and indistinct. **Who acts:** Wali, wind, bushes, rustlings, creatures · **What happens:** roar, boil, picture, know, forbid, sough · **To what, where:** water, place, visionless darkness, gorge, ledges, Wali This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wali, wind, bushes, rustlings), 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:pg3282:34:89 # text = From below, unseen in the blackness of the deep night shadows, the water roared and boiled round the jagged rocks—he could picture the place as he knew it, only ten times more pitiless and forbidding in the visionless darkness; the wind soughed through the gorge with fearsome sighs, and rustlings and whisperings, and the bushes and grasses that grew in the ledges of the cliffs seemed to him like living creatures that danced and beckoned, shadowy and indistinct. 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 below below ADV RB _ 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 unseen unseen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 blackness blackness NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 roared roar VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 boiled boil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 19 round round ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 jagged jagged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 — - PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 picture picture VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 only only ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 advmod _ _ 38 pitiless pitiless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 parataxis _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 forbidding forbid VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 conj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 visionless visionless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 48 soughed sough VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 49 through through ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 gorge gorge NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 52 with with ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 fearsome fearsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 sighs sigh NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 74 punct _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 74 cc _ _ 57 rustlings rustling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 74 nsubj _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 59 whisperings whispering NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 74 punct _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 74 cc _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 74 nsubj _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 grasses grass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 conj _ _ 66 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 67 nsubj _ _ 67 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 63 acl:relcl _ _ 68 in in ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 70 ledges ledge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 67 obl _ _ 71 of of ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 72 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 73 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 70 nmod _ _ 74 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 conj _ _ 75 to to ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 76 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 74 obl _ _ 77 like like SCONJ IN _ 78 mark _ _ 78 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 74 xcomp _ _ 79 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 78 obj _ _ 80 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 81 nsubj _ _ 81 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 79 acl:relcl _ _ 82 and and CCONJ CC _ 83 cc _ _ 83 beckoned beckon VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 81 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 84 , , PUNCT , _ 85 punct _ _ 85 shadowy shadowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 83 conj _ _ 86 and and CCONJ CC _ 87 cc _ _ 87 indistinct indistinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 85 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 88 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roar** | participle | | the water *not said here* | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **boil** | participle | | | | | | round the jagged rocks | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **picture** | could | Wali | the place | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 4 | **know** | past | Wali | place | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **forbid** | gerund | Wali *not said here* | | | the visionless darkness | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 6 | **sough** | past | the wind | | | the gorge with fearsome sighs | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gorge=Location | | 7 | **grow** | past | the bushes and grasses | | | the ledges of the cliffs | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ledge=Location | | 8 | **seem** | past | rustlings and whisperings | | Wali | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 9 | **live** | gerund | rustlings and whisperings *not said here* | creatures | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme creature=Location | | 10 | **dance** | past | creatures | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **beckon** | participle | creatures *not said here* | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/90/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/)