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title: One can imagine Goll’s merry stare taking in all that could be seen;… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One can imagine Goll’s merry stare taking in all that could be seen; Cona’n’s grim eye raking the women’s faces while his tongue raked them again; the Rough mac Morna shouldering here and there in the house and about it, with maybe a hatchet in his hand, and Art Og coursing further afield and vowing
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 44

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One can imagine Goll’s merry stare taking in all that could be seen; Cona’n’s grim eye raking the women’s faces while his tongue raked them again; the Rough mac Morna shouldering here and there in the house and about it, with maybe a hatchet in his hand, and Art Og coursing further afield and vowing that if the cub was there he would find him.

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**Who acts:** One, merry stare, tongue, Rough mac, Art, cub · **What happens:** imagine, take, see, rake, shoulder, course · **To what, where:** merry stare, that, faces, women, house, Morna

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, merry stare, tongue, Rough mac), 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:pg2892:18:44
# text = One can imagine Goll’s merry stare taking in all that could be seen; Cona’n’s grim eye raking the women’s faces while his tongue raked them again; the Rough mac Morna shouldering here and there in the house and about it, with maybe a hatchet in his hand, and Art Og coursing further afield and vowing that if the cub was there he would find him.
1	One	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stare	stare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	raking	rake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	raked	rake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	mac	mac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
35	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
36	shouldering	shoulder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
37	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	about	about	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	parataxis	_	_
57	Og	Og	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	flat	_	_
58	coursing	course	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	56	acl	_	_
59	further	further	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	afield	afield	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	xcomp	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	vowing	vow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	58	conj	_	_
63	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	71	mark	_	_
64	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	68	mark	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nsubj	_	_
67	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	68	cop	_	_
68	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	71	advcl	_	_
69	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	71	nsubj	_	_
70	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	71	aux	_	_
71	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	62	advcl	_	_
72	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	71	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | can | One | Goll's merry stare |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stare=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | Goll's merry stare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | could · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **rake** | gerund | One *not said here* | the women's faces |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent face=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **rake** | past | Cona’n's tongue | women *= woman* |  |  | again |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent they=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **shoulder** | gerund | the Rough mac *not said here* |  |  | the house; here |  | with a hatchet in Cona’n's hand | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in house=Destination |
| 7 | **course** | gerund | Art *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afield *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **vow** | gerund | Art *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the cub |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **find** | would | Cona’n *= cona'n* | Morna |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 11 | **stare** |  | Goll |  |  |  |  |  | nom stare «act intransitive»: poss=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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