--- title: At Moy Life’ he came on lads swimming in a pool; and, as he looked o… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At Moy Life’ he came on lads swimming in a pool; and, as he looked on them sporting in the flush tide, he thought that the tricks they performed were not hard for him, and that he could have shown them new ones. Who acts: hare, lads, tricks. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, lads, tricks), 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:pg2892:21:10 # text = At Moy Life’ he came on lads swimming in a pool; and, as he looked on them sporting in the flush tide, he thought that the tricks they performed were not hard for him, and that he could have shown them new ones. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Moy Moy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 Life Life PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 lads lad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 swimming swim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 19 on on SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 sporting sport VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 flush flush NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 performed perform VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 aux _ _ 45 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 46 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | hare | | | Moy | | on lads | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at moy=Location | | 2 | **swim** | gerund | lads *not said here* | | | a pool | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Trajectory | | 3 | **look** | past | hare | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **sport** | gerund | lads *= lad* | | | the flush tide | | | tree rules | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | hare | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **perform** | past | tricks *= trick* | the tricks *not said here* | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | | 7 | **not** **is** | past | the tricks | | | | | for hare; hard *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **show** | could · perfect | hare | tricks *= trick* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient one=Topic | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/21/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/21/11/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/21/)