--- title: “I will go away now,” his companion whispered, “for it is growing da… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “I will go away now,” his companion whispered, “for it is growing darker where you would have thought there was no more room for darkness, and there is an eerie feeling abroad which I do not like. Who acts: companion, you, more room, eerie feeling. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/55/) [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 XIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/) / 55 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 55 “I will go away now,” his companion whispered, “for it is growing darker where you would have thought there was no more room for darkness, and there is an eerie feeling abroad which I do not like. **Who acts:** companion, you, more room, eerie feeling · **What happens:** go away, whisper, grow, think, be, not like · **To what, where:** eerie feeling · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companion, you, more room, eerie feeling), 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:pg2892:26:55 # text = “I will go away now,” his companion whispered, “for it is growing darker where you would have thought there was no more room for darkness, and there is an eerie feeling abroad which I do not like. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 companion companion NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 whispered whisper VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 ccomp _ _ 18 darker dark ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 advmod _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux _ _ 23 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 25 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 26 no no ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 amod _ _ 28 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 34 expl _ _ 34 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 eerie eerie ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 38 abroad abroad ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 obj _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go away** *in a quote* | future | Fionn's companion *= companion* | | | | now | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | Fionn's companion | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **grow** *in a quote* | present · progressive | companion | | | | | dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | would · perfect | you | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | past | more room for darkness | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a eerie feeling | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Fionn's companion *= companion* | a eerie feeling | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/56/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/)