--- title: And the other champions told their delight; the belling of a stag ac… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And the other champions told their delight; the belling of a stag across water, the baying of a tuneful pack heard in the distance, the song of a lark, the laugh of a gleeful girl, or the whisper of a moved one. Who acts: other champions, champions, lark, gleeful girl. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/21/44/) [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 VIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/21/) / 44 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 44 And the other champions told their delight; the belling of a stag across water, the baying of a tuneful pack heard in the distance, the song of a lark, the laugh of a gleeful girl, or the whisper of a moved one. **Who acts:** other champions, champions, lark, gleeful girl · **What happens:** tell, bay, hear, move, delight, sing · **To what, where:** delight, tuneful pack, moved one · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (other champions, champions, lark, gleeful girl), 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:pg2892:21:44 # text = And the other champions told their delight; the belling of a stag across water, the baying of a tuneful pack heard in the distance, the song of a lark, the laugh of a gleeful girl, or the whisper of a moved one. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 champions champion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 belling belling NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 stag stag NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 across across ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 baying bay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 tuneful tuneful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 lark lark NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 laugh laugh NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 gleeful gleeful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 whisper whisper NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 amod _ _ 47 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the other champions | | champions's delight | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent delight=Recipient | | 2 | **bay** | gerund | the other champions *not said here* | | | | | of a tuneful pack | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hear** | participle | | a tuneful pack *not said here* | | | | in the distance | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **move** | participle | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **delight** | | champions *= champion* | | | | | | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **sing** | | a lark | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 7 | **laugh** | | a gleeful girl | | | | | | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 8 | **whisper** | | | a moved one | | | | | nom whisper «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/21/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/21/45/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/21/)