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title: On another road a vat of seasoned yew, monstrous as a house on wheel… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On another road a vat of seasoned yew, monstrous as a house on wheels and drawn by an hundred laborious oxen, came bumping and joggling the ale that thirsty Connaught princes would drink. Who acts: thirsty Connaught princes. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI, with its d
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 9

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On another road a vat of seasoned yew, monstrous as a house on wheels and drawn by an hundred laborious oxen, came bumping and joggling the ale that thirsty Connaught princes would drink.

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**Who acts:** thirsty Connaught princes · **What happens:** draw, come, bump, joggle, drink · **To what, where:** ale

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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 (thirsty Connaught princes), 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:pg2892:24:9
# text = On another road a vat of seasoned yew, monstrous as a house on wheels and drawn by an hundred laborious oxen, came bumping and joggling the ale that thirsty Connaught princes would drink.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	vat	vat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	seasoned	seasoned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	yew	yew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	laborious	laborious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	bumping	bump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	joggling	joggle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
31	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	Connaught	Connaught	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a hundred laborious oxen | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bump** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **joggle** | gerund |  | the ale |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ale=Theme |
| 5 | **drink** | would | thirsty Connaught princes | the ale |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |

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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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