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title: He stayed with these lads for some time, and it may be that they ido… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He stayed with these lads for some time, and it may be that they idolised him at first, for it is the way with boys to be astounded and enraptured by feats; but in the end, and that was inevitable, they grew jealous of the stranger. Who acts: name, life, that, lads. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales»
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 17

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He stayed with these lads for some time, and it may be that they idolised him at first, for it is the way with boys to be astounded and enraptured by feats; but in the end, and that was inevitable, they grew jealous of the stranger.

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**Who acts:** name, life, that, lads · **What happens:** stay, be, astound, enrapture, grow · **To what, where:** end

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, life, that, lads), 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:pg2892:21:17
# text = He stayed with these lads for some time, and it may be that they idolised him at first, for it is the way with boys to be astounded and enraptured by feats; but in the end, and that was inevitable, they grew jealous of the stranger.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:outer	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	idolised	idolis	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	astounded	astound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	enraptured	enrapture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	feats	feat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
48	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	xcomp	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | name |  |  |  | time | with this lads | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with lad=Location |
| 2 | **is** | may | life |  |  |  |  | idolis *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | life |  |  |  |  | for the way; with boys | tree rules |
| 4 | **astound** | to-infinitive · passive | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 5 | **enrapture** | participle | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by feats | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | inevitable *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **grow** | past | lads *= lad* |  |  |  | in the end | jealous *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in end=Location |

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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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