--- title: No second tear crept on the lady’s lashes, and, with her hand in the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: No second tear crept on the lady’s lashes, and, with her hand in the king’s hand, they paced together towards the palace, while behind them, in melancholy mood, Crimthann mac Ae led the horses and the chariot. Who acts: second tear, lashes, melancholy mood. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/40/76/) [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/pg2892/40/) / 76 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 76 No second tear crept on the lady’s lashes, and, with her hand in the king’s hand, they paced together towards the palace, while behind them, in melancholy mood, Crimthann mac Ae led the horses and the chariot. **Who acts:** second tear, lashes, melancholy mood · **What happens:** creep, pace, lead · **To what, where:** lashes, palace, horses 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 (second tear, lashes, melancholy mood), 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:pg2892:40:76 # text = No second tear crept on the lady’s lashes, and, with her hand in the king’s hand, they paced together towards the palace, while behind them, in melancholy mood, Crimthann mac Ae led the horses and the chariot. 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 3 det _ _ 2 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 tear tear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 lashes lash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’s 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 paced pace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 together together ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 towards towards ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 behind behind ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 melancholy melancholy NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 Crimthann Crimthann PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 mac Mac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 39 Ae Ae PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ _ 40 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 chariot chariot NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **creep** | past | no second tear | | | the lady's lashes | | with lady's hand in the king's hand | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lash=Trajectory | | 2 | **pace** | past | lashes *= lash* | | | the palace | | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards palace=Destination | | 3 | **lead** | past | melancholy mood | the horses and the chariot | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | 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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/40/75/) - next →: [Chapter II, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/41/1/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/40/)