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title: Perhaps a horse would stray into the thick screen about his home, an… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps a horse would stray into the thick screen about his home, and would look as solemnly on Fionn as Fionn did on it. Who acts: horse, Fionn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 29

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Perhaps a horse would stray into the thick screen about his home, and would look as solemnly on Fionn as Fionn did on it.

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**Who acts:** horse, Fionn · **What happens:** stray, look, do · **To what, where:** thick screen

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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 (horse, Fionn), 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:pg2892:14:29
# text = Perhaps a horse would stray into the thick screen about his home, and would look as solemnly on Fionn as Fionn did on it.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	stray	stray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stray** | would | a horse |  |  | the thick screen about existence's home |  | perhaps *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into screen=Destination |
| 2 | **look** | would | a horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on Fionn; solemnly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on fionn=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  | on horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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