--- title: And at that saying a touch as of lightning went through the gatherin… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And at that saying a touch as of lightning went through the gathering so that each person quivered, and the son of the great, murdered captain looked by the king’s shoulder into the twinkling eye of Goll. Who acts: that, lightning, person. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/24/40/) [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 XI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/24/) / 40 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 40 And at that saying a touch as of lightning went through the gathering so that each person quivered, and the son of the great, murdered captain looked by the king’s shoulder into the twinkling eye of Goll. **Who acts:** that, lightning, person · **What happens:** say, go, quiver, murder, look · **To what, where:** touch, gathering, great murdered captain, twinkling eye · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (that, lightning, person), 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:pg2892:24:40 # text = And at that saying a touch as of lightning went through the gathering so that each person quivered, and the son of the great, murdered captain looked by the king’s shoulder into the twinkling eye of Goll. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 at at SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 11 through through ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 gathering gathering NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 18 mark _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 quivered quiver VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 murdered murder VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 28 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 29 looked look VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 twinkling twinkling NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Goll Goll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | that | a touch | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | past | lightning | | | the gathering | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through gathering=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **quiver** | past | each person | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **murder** | participle | | | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **look** | participle | | the great murdered captain *not said here* | | the twinkling eye of Goll | | by the king's shoulder | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by shoulder=Theme | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/24/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/24/41/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/24/)