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title: She was going back secretly, in dread of the sons of Morna, slipping… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She was going back secretly, in dread of the sons of Morna, slipping through gloomy woods, keeping away from habitations, getting by desolate and lonely ways to her lord in Kerry. Who acts: ear. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 29

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She was going back secretly, in dread of the sons of Morna, slipping through gloomy woods, keeping away from habitations, getting by desolate and lonely ways to her lord in Kerry.

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**Who acts:** ear · **What happens:** go back, slip, keep away, get, desolate, dread · **To what, where:** dread, gloomy woods, habitations, sons

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ear), 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:pg2892:15:29
# text = She was going back secretly, in dread of the sons of Morna, slipping through gloomy woods, keeping away from habitations, getting by desolate and lonely ways to her lord in Kerry.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	slipping	slip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	habitations	habitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
26	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Kerry	Kerry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past · progressive | ear |  |  | dread of the sons of Morna |  | secretly *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **slip** | gerund |  |  |  | gloomy woods |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **keep away** | gerund |  |  |  | habitations |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from habitation=Eventuality |
| 4 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **desolate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to ear's lord in Kerry | tree rules |
| 6 | **dread** |  |  | the sons of Morna |  |  |  |  | nom dread «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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