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title: Now and again one of the dogs turned a head in full flight, and star… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now and again one of the dogs turned a head in full flight, and stared, not at Fionn, but distantly backwards, over the spreading and swelling plain where their companions of the hunt had disappeared. Who acts: one, spreading. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 14

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Now and again one of the dogs turned a head in full flight, and stared, not at Fionn, but distantly backwards, over the spreading and swelling plain where their companions of the hunt had disappeared.

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**Who acts:** one, spreading · **What happens:** turn, stare, plain, disappear · **To what, where:** head, companions

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, spreading), 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:pg2892:33:14
# text = Now and again one of the dogs turned a head in full flight, and stared, not at Fionn, but distantly backwards, over the spreading and swelling plain where their companions of the hunt had disappeared.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	distantly	distantly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	spreading	spreading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	plain	plain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | one of the dogs | a head |  |  | now | in full flight | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Patient in flight=Topic |
| 2 | **stare** | past | one of the dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Fionn; backwards *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fionn=Theme |
| 3 | **plain** | present | the spreading and swelling |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **disappear** | past · perfect · passive |  | spreading's companions |  |  |  | of the hunt | 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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