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title: On the brown stallion ambling peacefully yonder there might go the w… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the brown stallion ambling peacefully yonder there might go the warring of the gods for two or ten thousand years; this mare with the dainty pace and the vicious eye might be sidling under a load of oaken odes in honour of her owner’s family, with a few bundles of tales of wonder added in case th
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 11

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On the brown stallion ambling peacefully yonder there might go the warring of the gods for two or ten thousand years; this mare with the dainty pace and the vicious eye might be sidling under a load of oaken odes in honour of her owner’s family, with a few bundles of tales of wonder added in case they might be useful; and perhaps the restive piebald was backing the history of Ireland into a ditch.

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**Who acts:** brown stallion, mare, tales, restive piebald, wonder · **What happens:** amble, go, sidle, add, be, back · **To what, where:** warring, load, wonder, history, ditch, family · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brown stallion, mare, tales, restive piebald), 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:pg2892:24:11
# text = On the brown stallion ambling peacefully yonder there might go the warring of the gods for two or ten thousand years; this mare with the dainty pace and the vicious eye might be sidling under a load of oaken odes in honour of her owner’s family, with a few bundles of tales of wonder added in case they might be useful; and perhaps the restive piebald was backing the history of Ireland into a ditch.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stallion	stallion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	ambling	amble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	warring	warring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	_
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	dainty	dainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	vicious	vicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
35	sidling	sidle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
36	under	under	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	oaken	oaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	odes	ode	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	’s	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	bundles	bundle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	acl	_	_
59	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	64	mark	_	_
60	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	fixed	_	_
61	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
62	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
63	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	cop	_	_
64	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	72	cc	_	_
67	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	72	advmod	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
69	restive	restive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	amod	_	_
70	piebald	piebald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	nsubj	_	_
71	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	72	aux	_	_
72	backing	back	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
73	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	74	det	_	_
74	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	obj	_	_
75	of	of	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
76	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	74	nmod	_	_
77	into	into	ADP	IN	_	79	case	_	_
78	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	79	det	_	_
79	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **amble** | gerund | the brown stallion *not said here* |  |  | there |  | peacefully *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | might |  | the warring of the gods |  |  | year | on the brown stallion | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location warring=Theme |
| 3 | **sidle** | might · progressive | this mare with the dainty pace and the vicious eye |  |  | a load of oaken odes |  | in honour of mare's owner's family; with a few bundles of tales of wonder | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under load=Trajectory |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | wonder *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | might | tales *= tale* |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **back** | past · progressive | the restive piebald | the history of Ireland |  | a ditch |  | perhaps *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location history=Theme |
| 7 | **honour** |  |  | mare's owner's family |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **tell** |  | wonder |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication 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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