--- title: These, and the occasional boulders, round which they raced, or over… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: These, and the occasional boulders, round which they raced, or over which they scrambled; the solitary tree which dozed aloof and beautiful in the path, the occasional clump of trees that hived sweet shadow as a hive hoards honey, and the rustling grass that stretched to infinity, and that moved and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/33/6/) [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/) / 6 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 6 These, and the occasional boulders, round which they raced, or over which they scrambled; the solitary tree which dozed aloof and beautiful in the path, the occasional clump of trees that hived sweet shadow as a hive hoards honey, and the rustling grass that stretched to infinity, and that moved and crept and swung under the breeze in endless, rhythmic billowings. **Who acts:** men, solitary tree, occasional clump, rustling grass, that · **What happens:** race, scramble, doze, hive, stretch, move · **To what, where:** occasional boulders, path, sweet shadow, infinity, breeze 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 (men, solitary tree, occasional clump, rustling grass), 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:pg2892:33:6 # text = These, and the occasional boulders, round which they raced, or over which they scrambled; the solitary tree which dozed aloof and beautiful in the path, the occasional clump of trees that hived sweet shadow as a hive hoards honey, and the rustling grass that stretched to infinity, and that moved and crept and swung under the breeze in endless, rhythmic billowings. 1 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 det _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 occasional occasional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 boulders boulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 round round ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obl _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 raced race VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obl _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 scrambled scramble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 solitary solitary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 dozed doze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 aloof aloof ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 occasional occasional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 clump clump NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 hived hive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 hive hive NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 hoards hoard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 compound _ _ 44 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 rustling rustling NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 50 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 51 nsubj _ _ 51 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 acl:relcl _ _ 52 to to ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 infinity infinity NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 56 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 57 nsubj _ _ 57 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 59 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 conj _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 61 swung swing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 conj _ _ 62 under under ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ _ 65 in in ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 66 endless endless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 67 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 68 rhythmic rhythmic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 69 billowings billowing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **race** | past | men *= man* | | | this occasional boulders the solitary tree and the occasional clump of trees and the rustling grass | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round which=Trajectory | | 2 | **scramble** | past | men *= man* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over which=Trajectory | | 3 | **doze** | past | the solitary tree and the occasional clump of trees and the rustling grass | | | the path | | aloof *property* | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hive** | past | the occasional clump of trees | sweet shadow | | | | as a hoards honey | tree rules | | 5 | **stretch** | past | the rustling grass | | | infinity | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to infinity=Location | | 6 | **move** | past | that | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **creep** | past | that *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **swing** | past | that *not said here* | | | the breeze | | in endless rhythmic billowings | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme under breeze=Source in billowing=Trajectory | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/33/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/33/7/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/33/)