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title: They did not tongue it, nor bell it, but they added silence to silen… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They did not tongue it, nor bell it, but they added silence to silence and speed to speed, until the lean grey bodies were one pucker and lashing of movement. Who acts: companions, Heo’lan, lean grey bodies. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 19

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They did not tongue it, nor bell it, but they added silence to silence and speed to speed, until the lean grey bodies were one pucker and lashing of movement.

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**Who acts:** companions, Heo’lan, lean grey bodies · **What happens:** do, not tongue, bell, add, speed, be · **To what, where:** silence, one pucker

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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 (companions, Heo’lan, lean grey bodies), 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:pg2892:33:19
# text = They did not tongue it, nor bell it, but they added silence to silence and speed to speed, until the lean grey bodies were one pucker and lashing of movement.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc	_	_
8	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	speed	speed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	pucker	pucker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	lashing	lashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | companions *= companion* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **tongue** |  | Heo’lan *= heo'lan* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bell** |  | Heo’lan *= heo'lan* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | companions *= companion* | silence and silence and speed |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Patient |
| 5 | **speed** | to-infinitive | companions *= companion* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past | the lean grey bodies | one pucker and lashing |  |  |  | of movement | 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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