--- title: “No, master, we ran, but she vanished as we got to her; the great ho… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “No, master, we ran, but she vanished as we got to her; the great hounds vanished away, and that being that seemed to be Fionn disappeared with them. Who acts: we, Chief, great hounds, that. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/36/31/) [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 IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/36/) / 31 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 31 “No, master, we ran, but she vanished as we got to her; the great hounds vanished away, and that being that seemed to be Fionn disappeared with them. **Who acts:** we, Chief, great hounds, that, Fionn · **What happens:** run, vanish, get, vanish away, be · **To what, where:** master, Chief This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Chief, great hounds, that), 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:pg2892:36:31 # text = “No, master, we ran, but she vanished as we got to her; the great hounds vanished away, and that being that seemed to be Fionn disappeared with them. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 hounds hound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 cop _ _ 27 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 28 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 31 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 disappeared disappear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** *in a quote* | past | we | master | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **vanish** *in a quote* | past | Chief | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | past | we | | Chief | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result | | 4 | **vanish away** *in a quote* | past | the great hounds | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund | that | | | | | seem *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Fionn | | | | | with hounds *= hound*; disappear *property* | tree rules | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/36/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/36/32/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/36/)