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title: The woman in the chariot had drawn nigh to the ford by which they we… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The woman in the chariot had drawn nigh to the ford by which they were standing, and, without pause, she swung her steeds into the shallows and came across the river in a tumult of foam and spray. Who acts: eyebrows, pause. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dep
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 35

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The woman in the chariot had drawn nigh to the ford by which they were standing, and, without pause, she swung her steeds into the shallows and came across the river in a tumult of foam and spray.

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**Who acts:** eyebrows, pause · **What happens:** draw, stand, swing, come · **To what, where:** woman, ford, steeds, shallows, river

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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 (eyebrows, pause), 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:pg2892:40:35
# text = The woman in the chariot had drawn nigh to the ford by which they were standing, and, without pause, she swung her steeds into the shallows and came across the river in a tumult of foam and spray.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ford	ford	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	without	without	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	pause	pause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shallows	shallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
32	across	across	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	tumult	tumult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · perfect · passive |  | the woman in the chariot |  | the ford |  | nigh *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to ford=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | eyebrows *= eyebrow* |  |  |  |  | by the ford | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by which=Location |
| 3 | **swing** | past | pause | pause's steeds |  | the shallows |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent steed=Theme into shallow=Trajectory |
| 4 | **come** | past | pause *not said here* |  |  | the river |  | in a tumult of foam and spray | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across river=Initial\_Location |

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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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