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title: Then they went hand in hand in the country that smells of apple-blos… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they went hand in hand in the country that smells of apple-blossom and honey, looking on heavy-boughed trees and on dancing and beaming clouds. Who acts: Iollan, country. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 12

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Then they went hand in hand in the country that smells of apple-blossom and honey, looking on heavy-boughed trees and on dancing and beaming clouds.

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**Who acts:** Iollan, country · **What happens:** go, smell, look · **To what, where:** hand

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iollan, country), 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:pg2892:29:12
# text = Then they went hand in hand in the country that smells of apple-blossom and honey, looking on heavy-boughed trees and on dancing and beaming clouds.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	boughed	boughed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	beaming	beaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Iollan | hand |  | hand | then | in the country | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 2 | **smell** | present | the country |  |  |  |  | of apple blossom and honey | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of blossom=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | Iollan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on boughed trees and dancing and beaming clouds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on tree=Theme |

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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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