--- title: But what was their horror to see its usually tranquil waters seethin… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But what was their horror to see its usually tranquil waters seething and bubbling, and even as they looked down rushed a mighty stream, which entirely engulfed it, and Sylvain and Jocosa found themselves parted by a wide and swiftly-rushing river. Who acts: tranquil waters, Sylvain, mighty stream. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/23/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Sylvain and Jocosa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/) / 23 # The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 23 But what was their horror to see its usually tranquil waters seething and bubbling, and even as they looked down rushed a mighty stream, which entirely engulfed it, and Sylvain and Jocosa found themselves parted by a wide and swiftly-rushing river. **Who acts:** tranquil waters, Sylvain, mighty stream · **What happens:** be, see, seethe, bubble, look down, rush · **To what, where:** horror, tranquil waters, mighty stream, stream, Sylvain This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tranquil waters, Sylvain, mighty stream), 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:pg7277:9:23 # text = But what was their horror to see its usually tranquil waters seething and bubbling, and even as they looked down rushed a mighty stream, which entirely engulfed it, and Sylvain and Jocosa found themselves parted by a wide and swiftly-rushing river. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 tranquil tranquil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 12 seething seethe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 bubbling bubble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 down down ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 rushed rush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 xcomp _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 entirely entirely ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 engulfed engulf VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 Sylvain Sylvain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 Jocosa Jocosa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 37 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 36 obj _ _ 38 parted part VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 xcomp _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 41 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 swiftly swiftly ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 rushing rush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 conj _ _ 46 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | Sylvain's horror | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | | horror's tranquil waters | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | | 3 | **seethe** | gerund | horror's tranquil waters *not said here* | | | | | | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | | 4 | **bubble** | gerund | horror's tranquil waters *not said here* | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 5 | **look down** | past | Sylvain | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **rush** | participle | Sylvain *not said here* | a mighty stream | | | | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stream=Trajectory | | 7 | **engulf** | past | a mighty stream | stream | | | | entirely *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | | 8 | **find** | past | Sylvain and Jocosa | Sylvain | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute clause=Theme | | 9 | **part** | participle | Sylvain *not said here* | | | | | by a wide river | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 10 | **rush** | gerund | Sylvain *not said here* | | | | | swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/24/) - ↑ back to [Sylvain and Jocosa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/)