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title: We were left in the rough grass, staring about us and at each other,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: We were left in the rough grass, staring about us and at each other, and listening to the moan of the wind and the terror of our hearts.” Who acts: wind. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 32

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We were left in the rough grass, staring about us and at each other, and listening to the moan of the wind and the terror of our hearts.”

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**Who acts:** wind · **What happens:** leave, stare, listen, moan · **To what, where:** We, rough grass

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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 (wind), 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:pg2892:36:32
# text = We were left in the rough grass, staring about us and at each other, and listening to the moan of the wind and the terror of our hearts.”
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	conj	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	moan	moan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | We |  | the rough grass |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in grass=Location |
| 2 | **stare** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about us | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about we=Theme |
| 3 | **listen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the moan of the wind and the terror of our hearts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to moan=Theme |
| 4 | **moan** |  | the wind |  |  |  |  |  | nom moan «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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