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title: Everywhere he walked the dog followed him, giving little prances and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Everywhere he walked the dog followed him, giving little prances and little pats against him, and keeping her eyes fixed on his with such eagerness and intelligence that he marvelled. Who acts: dog, eyes. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus ca
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 36

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Everywhere he walked the dog followed him, giving little prances and little pats against him, and keeping her eyes fixed on his with such eagerness and intelligence that he marvelled.

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**Who acts:** dog, eyes · **What happens:** walk, follow, give, keep, fix, marvell · **To what, where:** Fergus, little prances, eyes, such eagerness, intelligence

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, eyes), 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:pg2892:31:36
# text = Everywhere he walked the dog followed him, giving little prances and little pats against him, and keeping her eyes fixed on his with such eagerness and intelligence that he marvelled.
1	Everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	prances	prance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pats	pat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	marvelled	marvell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | dog | Fergus |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | past | the dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | dog *not said here* | little prances and little pats |  |  |  | against dog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prance=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | gerund | dog *not said here* | animal's eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fix** | participle | animal's eyes *not said here* |  |  | dog's such eagerness and intelligence |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **marvell** | past | dog | intelligence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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