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title: He moved as wave tumbling o'er wave As whirlwind following whirlwind… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He moved as wave tumbling o'er wave As whirlwind following whirlwind, As a furious wintry blast, So swiftly, sprucely, cheerily, Right proudly, And no stop made Until he came To the court of Leinster's King, He gave a cheery light leap O'er top of turret, Of court and city Of Leinster's King. Who ac
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 121

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He moved as wave tumbling o'er wave As whirlwind following whirlwind, As a furious wintry blast, So swiftly, sprucely, cheerily, Right proudly, And no stop made Until he came To the court of Leinster's King, He gave a cheery light leap O'er top of turret, Of court and city Of Leinster's King.

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**Who acts:** earth, tumbling o'er, stop · **What happens:** move, tumble, wave, follow, make, come · **To what, where:** court, cheery light leap

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, tumbling o'er, stop), 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:pg7885:20:121
# text = He moved as wave tumbling o'er wave As whirlwind following whirlwind, As a furious wintry blast, So swiftly, sprucely, cheerily, Right proudly, And no stop made Until he came To the court of Leinster's King, He gave a cheery light leap O'er top of turret, Of court and city Of Leinster's King.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	o'er	o'er	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wave	wave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	As	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	whirlwind	whirlwind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
10	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
11	whirlwind	whirlwind	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	As	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	wintry	wintry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	So	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	sprucely	sprucely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	cheerily	cheerily	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Right	right	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
33	Until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
36	To	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	cheery	cheery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
48	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
50	O'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	turret	turret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	iobj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	_
59	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	's	's	PART	POS	_	60	case	_	_
62	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | earth |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tumble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **wave** | present | tumbling o'er |  |  |  |  | as whirlwind and a furious wintry blast | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund | tumbling o'er *not said here* |  |  |  |  | whirlwind *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | no stop |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **come** | past | earth |  |  | the court of Leinster's King |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **give** | past | earth | a cheery light leap | court and city of Leinster's King |  |  | o'er top of turret | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent court=Recipient leap=Theme |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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