--- title: They came to an inlet of the sea all sweet and calm under the round,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They came to an inlet of the sea all sweet and calm under the round, silver-flooding moon, and the young man, with Becfola treading on his heel, stepped into a boat and rowed to a high-jutting, pleasant island. Who acts: curls, Becfola. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curls, Becfola), 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:pg2892:42:19 # text = They came to an inlet of the sea all sweet and calm under the round, silver-flooding moon, and the young man, with Becfola treading on his heel, stepped into a boat and rowed to a high-jutting, pleasant island. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 inlet inlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 advmod _ _ 10 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 under under ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 15 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 flooding flood VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 amod _ _ 20 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 with with SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 Becfola Becfola PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 treading tread VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 heel heel NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 stepped step VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 rowed row VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 conj _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 42 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 jutting jut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | curls *= curl* | the young man | | a inlet of the sea | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to inlet=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **flood** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **tread** | gerund | Becfola | | | man's heel | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on heel=Trajectory | | 4 | **step** | participle | | man's heel *not said here* | | a boat | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination | | 5 | **row** | participle | | | | a pleasant island | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to island=Trajectory | | 6 | **jut** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/42/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/42/20/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/42/)