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title: Perhaps he did not see the lark for a long time, but he would have h… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps he did not see the lark for a long time, but he would have heard him, far out of sight in the endless sky, thrilling and thrilling until the world seemed to have no other sound but that clear sweetness; and what a world it was to make that sound! Who acts: existence, world. A sentence of «Ir
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 25

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Perhaps he did not see the lark for a long time, but he would have heard him, far out of sight in the endless sky, thrilling and thrilling until the world seemed to have no other sound but that clear sweetness; and what a world it was to make that sound!

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**Who acts:** existence, world · **What happens:** not see, hear, thrill, seem, have, be · **To what, where:** lark, world, other sound

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (existence, world), 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:pg2892:14:25
# text = Perhaps he did not see the lark for a long time, but he would have heard him, far out of sight in the endless sky, thrilling and thrilling until the world seemed to have no other sound but that clear sweetness; and what a world it was to make that sound!
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	thrilling	thrill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	thrilling	thrill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
32	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
39	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
43	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
47	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	53	obj	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
54	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	55	det	_	_
55	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | existence | the lark |  |  | time | perhaps *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lark=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | would · perfect | existence | world |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **thrill** | gerund | existence *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **thrill** | gerund | existence *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **seem** | past | the world |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | the world *not said here* | no other sound but that clear sweetness |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | past | a world |  |  |  |  | make *property* | 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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