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title: As they paced along Uct Dealv railed bitterly against the hound, and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As they paced along Uct Dealv railed bitterly against the hound, and shook and jerked her chain. Who acts: they, Uct. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 1

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As they paced along Uct Dealv railed bitterly against the hound, and shook and jerked her chain.

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**Who acts:** they, Uct · **What happens:** pace, rail, shake, jerk · **To what, where:** chain

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, Uct), 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:pg2892:30:1
# text = As they paced along Uct Dealv railed bitterly against the hound, and shook and jerked her chain.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paced	pace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	Uct	Uct	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Dealv	Dealv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	railed	rail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	jerked	jerk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pace** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rail** | past | Uct |  |  |  |  | against the hound; bitterly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shake** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **jerk** | past |  | Uct's chain |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=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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