---
title: Panic swirled into the man from Faery; he turned from that terrible… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Panic swirled into the man from Faery; he turned from that terrible spot and fled, not knowing what might be behind, but dreading it as he had never before dreaded anything, and the unknown pursued him; that terrible defence became offence and hung to his heel as a wolf pads by the flank of a bull. 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/27/23/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 XIV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/27/) / 23

# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 23

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Panic swirled into the man from Faery; he turned from that terrible spot and fled, not knowing what might be behind, but dreading it as he had never before dreaded anything, and the unknown pursued him; that terrible defence became offence and hung to his heel as a wolf pads by the flank of a bull.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Panic, unknown, terrible defence · **What happens:** swirl, turn, flee, not know, be, dread · **To what, where:** Panic, terrible spot, spot, anything, offence

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Panic, unknown, terrible defence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2892:27:23
# text = Panic swirled into the man from Faery; he turned from that terrible spot and fled, not knowing what might be behind, but dreading it as he had never before dreaded anything, and the unknown pursued him; that terrible defence became offence and hung to his heel as a wolf pads by the flank of a bull.
1	Panic	panic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	swirled	swirl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Faery	Faery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	dreading	dread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	before	before	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	dreaded	dread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
34	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	nsubj	_	_
39	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
42	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
43	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
46	offence	offence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	xcomp	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	as	as	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
56	by	by	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	flank	flank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swirl** | participle |  | Panic *not said here* |  |  |  | into the man from Faery | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into man=Destination |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Panic |  |  | that terrible spot |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from spot=Trajectory |
| 3 | **flee** | past | Panic *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **know** | gerund | Panic *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | might |  |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **dread** | gerund | Panic *not said here* | spot |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 7 | **dread** | past · perfect | Panic | anything |  |  |  | before *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 8 | **pursue** | past | the unknown | Panic |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 9 | **become** | past | that terrible defence | offence |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 10 | **hang** | past | that terrible defence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to defence's heel; as wolf pads; by the flank of a bull | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by flank=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/27/22/)
- next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/27/24/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter XIV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/27/)