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title: The others ran after deer, using the speed of their legs, the noses… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The others ran after deer, using the speed of their legs, the noses of their dogs and a thousand well-worn tricks to bring them within reach, and, often enough, the animal escaped them. Who acts: others, animal. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency t
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 26

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The others ran after deer, using the speed of their legs, the noses of their dogs and a thousand well-worn tricks to bring them within reach, and, often enough, the animal escaped them.

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**Who acts:** others, animal · **What happens:** run, use, bring, escape · **To what, where:** noses, speed, others

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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 (others, animal), 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:pg2892:21:26
# text = The others ran after deer, using the speed of their legs, the noses of their dogs and a thousand well-worn tricks to bring them within reach, and, often enough, the animal escaped them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	within	within	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	often	often	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
35	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the others | the noses of others's dogs and thousand worn tricks |  |  | after deer |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | the others *not said here* | the speed of others's legs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the others *not said here* | others *= other* |  |  |  | within reach | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **escape** | past | the animal | others *= other* |  |  |  | often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Initial\_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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