--- title: They were pacing so, through the golden-shafted, tender-coloured eve… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They were pacing so, through the golden-shafted, tender-coloured eve, when a fawn leaped suddenly from covert, and, with that leap, all quietness vanished: the men shouted, the dogs gave tongue, and a furious chase commenced. Who acts: dogs, fawn, leap, men. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by Jame --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/33/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/33/) / 4 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 4 They were pacing so, through the golden-shafted, tender-coloured eve, when a fawn leaped suddenly from covert, and, with that leap, all quietness vanished: the men shouted, the dogs gave tongue, and a furious chase commenced. **Who acts:** dogs, fawn, leap, men, furious chase · **What happens:** pace, shaft, leap, vanish, shout, give · **To what, where:** shafted coloured eve, covert, tongue 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 (dogs, fawn, leap, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:33:4 # text = They were pacing so, through the golden-shafted, tender-coloured eve, when a fawn leaped suddenly from covert, and, with that leap, all quietness vanished: the men shouted, the dogs gave tongue, and a furious chase commenced. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 pacing pace VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 6 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 8 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 shafted shaft VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 tender tender ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 eve eve NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 fawn fawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 leaped leap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 21 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 covert covert NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 leap leap NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 quietness quietness NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 42 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 furious furious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 48 commenced commence VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pace** | past · progressive | dogs *= dog* | | | the shafted coloured eve | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through eve=Trajectory | | 2 | **shaft** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **leap** | participle | a fawn | | | covert | | suddenly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from covert=Trajectory | | 4 | **vanish** | past | that leap | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the men | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **give** | past | the dogs | tongue | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | | 7 | **commence** | participle | a furious chase | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/33/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/33/5/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/33/)