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title: A lance might slide at him from this bush or from the one yonder.. — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A lance might slide at him from this bush or from the one yonder.. Who acts: lance. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 38

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A lance might slide at him from this bush or from the one yonder..

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**Who acts:** lance · **What happens:** slide · **To what, where:** bush

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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 (lance), 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:pg2892:20:38
# text = A lance might slide at him from this bush or from the one yonder..
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	slide	slide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	..	..	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide** | might | a lance |  |  | this bush or the one |  | at Fionn | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at he=Source from bush=Trajectory |

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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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