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title: Then from the darkness there came another sound; a low, sweet sound;… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then from the darkness there came another sound; a low, sweet sound; thrillingly joyous, thrillingly low; so low the ear could scarcely note it, so sweet the ear wished to catch nothing else and would strive to hear it rather than all sounds that may be heard by man: the music of another world! the 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 12

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Then from the darkness there came another sound; a low, sweet sound; thrillingly joyous, thrillingly low; so low the ear could scarcely note it, so sweet the ear wished to catch nothing else and would strive to hear it rather than all sounds that may be heard by man: the music of another world! the unearthly, dear melody of the Shi’!

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**Who acts:** ear, man · **What happens:** come, note, wish, catch, strive, hear · **To what, where:** sound, darkness, nothing, sounds

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ear, man), 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:pg2892:27:12
# text = Then from the darkness there came another sound; a low, sweet sound; thrillingly joyous, thrillingly low; so low the ear could scarcely note it, so sweet the ear wished to catch nothing else and would strive to hear it rather than all sounds that may be heard by man: the music of another world! the unearthly, dear melody of the Shi’!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	thrillingly	thrillingly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	thrillingly	thrillingly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	note	note	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	37	obj	_	_
39	else	else	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	strive	strive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	49	cc	_	_
47	than	than	ADP	IN	_	46	fixed	_	_
48	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	det	_	_
49	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl:relcl	_	_
54	by	by	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	61	det	_	_
61	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	67	punct	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
64	unearthly	unearthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
66	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	appos	_	_
68	of	of	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
70	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	71	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	’	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	67	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | another sound |  | the darkness | then | a low sweet sound *obl*; the music of another world *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme |
| 2 | **note** | could | the ear | darkness |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **wish** | past | the ear |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the ear *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 5 | **strive** | would | the ear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hear** | to-infinitive | the ear *not said here* | darkness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **hear** | may · passive | man | all sounds |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |

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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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