--- title: An arrow buzzing by one’s ear would slide into the ground and quiver… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: An arrow buzzing by one’s ear would slide into the ground and quiver there silently, menacingly, hinting of the brothers it had left in the quiver behind; to the right? to the left? how many brothers? in how many quivers...? Who acts: arrow, brothers. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Steph --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/20/34/) [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 VII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/20/) / 34 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 34 An arrow buzzing by one’s ear would slide into the ground and quiver there silently, menacingly, hinting of the brothers it had left in the quiver behind; to the right? to the left? how many brothers? in how many quivers...? **Who acts:** arrow, brothers · **What happens:** buzz, slide, hint, leave · **To what, where:** many brothers, ground, arrow, quiver This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrow, brothers), 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:pg2892:20:34 # text = An arrow buzzing by one’s ear would slide into the ground and quiver there silently, menacingly, hinting of the brothers it had left in the quiver behind; to the right? to the left? how many brothers? in how many quivers...? 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 buzzing buzz VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’s 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 slide slide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 quiver quiver NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 16 silently silently ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 menacingly menacingly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 hinting hint VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 quiver quiver NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 behind behind ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ? ? PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 40 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 41 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 46 advmod _ _ 46 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 quivers quiver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ... ... PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buzz** | gerund | a arrow *not said here* | | | | | by one ear | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by ear=Location | | 2 | **slide** | would | a arrow | many brothers | | the ground and quiver; there | | to the right to the left; in many quivers; silently *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into ground=Source to right=Trajectory in quiver=Destination | | 3 | **hint** *speech: other* | gerund | a arrow *not said here* | | | | | of the brothers; menacingly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive | the brothers *not said here* | arrow | | the quiver | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in quiver=Location | 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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/20/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/20/35/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/20/)