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title: When he was with the pack these five were with him, and woeful indee… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was with the pack these five were with him, and woeful indeed was the eye they turned on their comrades when these pushed too closely or were not properly humble. Who acts: boy, pack, Bran. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 5

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When he was with the pack these five were with him, and woeful indeed was the eye they turned on their comrades when these pushed too closely or were not properly humble.

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**Who acts:** boy, pack, Bran · **What happens:** be, turn, push, not be · **To what, where:** eye, comrades, these

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, pack, Bran), 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:pg2892:38:5
# text = When he was with the pack these five were with him, and woeful indeed was the eye they turned on their comrades when these pushed too closely or were not properly humble.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	woeful	woeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
25	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | with the pack; this five *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with pack | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the pack | the eye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn** | past | Bran | the eye *not said here* |  | Bran's comrades |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **push** | participle · passive |  | these |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | humble, properly *property* | 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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