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title: They prowled up and down, tramping from the spy-hole to the kitchen,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They prowled up and down, tramping from the spy-hole to the kitchen, and from the kitchen to the turreted roof. Who acts: men. 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 21

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They prowled up and down, tramping from the spy-hole to the kitchen, and from the kitchen to the turreted roof.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** prowl, tramp · **To what, where:** kitchen, spy hole

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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 (men), 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:pg2892:3:21
# text = They prowled up and down, tramping from the spy-hole to the kitchen, and from the kitchen to the turreted roof.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	prowled	prowl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	tramping	tramp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	spy	spy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	turreted	turreted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prowl** | past | men *= man* |  |  | the kitchen to the turreted roof |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from kitchen=Trajectory |
| 2 | **tramp** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  | the spy hole to the kitchen |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hole=Trajectory |

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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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