--- title: Or, coming suddenly on him, the horse might stare, all a-cock with e… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Or, coming suddenly on him, the horse might stare, all a-cock with eyes and ears and nose, one long-drawn facial extension, ere he turned and bounded away with manes all over him and hoofs all under him and tails all round him. Who acts: horse, one, ere, tails. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by J --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/14/30/) [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/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/14/) / 30 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 30 Or, coming suddenly on him, the horse might stare, all a-cock with eyes and ears and nose, one long-drawn facial extension, ere he turned and bounded away with manes all over him and hoofs all under him and tails all round him. **Who acts:** horse, one, ere, tails · **What happens:** come, stare, draw, extension, turn, bound away · **To what, where:** existence 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, one, ere, tails), 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:pg2892:14:30 # text = Or, coming suddenly on him, the horse might stare, all a-cock with eyes and ears and nose, one long-drawn facial extension, ere he turned and bounded away with manes all over him and hoofs all under him and tails all round him. 1 Or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 4 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 stare stare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nsubj _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 28 facial facial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 extension extension NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 ere ere NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 bounded bound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 36 away away ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 manes manis NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 all all ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 over over ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 hoofs hoof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ _ 44 all all ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 45 under under ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 48 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nsubj _ _ 49 all all ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 round round VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 51 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | gerund | the horse *not said here* | | | | | on existence; suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location | | 2 | **stare** | might | the horse | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **draw** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **extension** | | one | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **turn** | past | ere | | | | | over existence; under existence | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over he=Source under he=Trajectory | | 6 | **bound away** | past | ere *not said here* | | | | | with manes; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **round** | present | tails | existence | | | | all *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/14/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/14/31/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/14/)