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title: So sweet it was that the sense strained to it, and having reached mu… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So sweet it was that the sense strained to it, and having reached must follow drowsily in its wake, and would merge in it, and could not return again to its own place until that strange harmony was finished and the ear restored to freedom. Who acts: darkness, having, ear. A sentence of «Irish Fairy 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 13

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So sweet it was that the sense strained to it, and having reached must follow drowsily in its wake, and would merge in it, and could not return again to its own place until that strange harmony was finished and the ear restored to freedom.

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**Who acts:** darkness, having, ear · **What happens:** be, strain, have, reach, follow, merge · **To what, where:** sweet sense, darkness, wake, strange harmony, freedom

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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 (darkness, having, ear), 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:pg2892:27:13
# text = So sweet it was that the sense strained to it, and having reached must follow drowsily in its wake, and would merge in it, and could not return again to its own place until that strange harmony was finished and the ear restored to freedom.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	strained	strain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
14	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
17	drowsily	drowsily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	wake	wake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	merge	merge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
38	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
39	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	harmony	harmony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	restored	restore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | darkness | the sweet sense |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **strain** | participle |  | the sweet sense *not said here* | darkness |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reach** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **follow** | must | having | darkness's wake |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wake=Theme |
| 6 | **merge** | would | having *not said here* |  |  | darkness |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **not** **return** | could |  |  |  |  | again | to darkness's own place *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |
| 8 | **finish** | past · passive |  | that strange harmony |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 9 | **restore** | past | the ear |  | freedom |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to freedom=Recipient |

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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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