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title: The hare crouching in the fronds was visible to him, and the fish th… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The hare crouching in the fronds was visible to him, and the fish that swayed in-visibly in the sway and flicker of a green bank. Who acts: hare, fish, green bank. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 8

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The hare crouching in the fronds was visible to him, and the fish that swayed in-visibly in the sway and flicker of a green bank.

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**Who acts:** hare, fish, green bank · **What happens:** crouch, be, sway, flicker · **To what, where:** fronds, trouble, sway

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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 (hare, fish, green bank), 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:pg2892:21:8
# text = The hare crouching in the fronds was visible to him, and the fish that swayed in-visibly in the sway and flicker of a green bank.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	crouching	crouch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fronds	frond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	swayed	sway	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	visibly	visibly	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sway	sway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	flicker	flicker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crouch** | gerund | the hare *not said here* |  |  | the fronds |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in frond=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | the hare |  | trouble |  |  | visible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sway** | past | the fish |  |  | the sway and flicker of a green bank |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in visibly=Location |
| 4 | **flicker** |  | a green bank |  |  |  |  |  | nom flicker «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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