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title: She looked carefully in every direction to see if one might discover… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She looked carefully in every direction to see if one might discover them in hiding; she looked closely and lingeringly at the shadows under distant trees to see if these shadows moved; and she listened on every wind to try if she could distinguish a yap or a yawn or a sneeze. Who acts: lady, one, s
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 5

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She looked carefully in every direction to see if one might discover them in hiding; she looked closely and lingeringly at the shadows under distant trees to see if these shadows moved; and she listened on every wind to try if she could distinguish a yap or a yawn or a sneeze.

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**Who acts:** lady, one, shadows · **What happens:** look, see, discover, hide, move, listen · **To what, where:** wolves, yap

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, one, shadows), 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:pg2892:42:5
# text = She looked carefully in every direction to see if one might discover them in hiding; she looked closely and lingeringly at the shadows under distant trees to see if these shadows moved; and she listened on every wind to try if she could distinguish a yap or a yawn or a sneeze.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	lingeringly	lingeringly	ADV	RB	_	19	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
25	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
40	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	yap	yap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	yawn	yawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
52	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | lady |  |  |  |  | in every direction; carefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **discover** *a condition, not said to happen* | might | one | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 4 | **hide** | gerund | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | past | lady |  |  |  |  | at the shadows under distant trees; closely *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shadow=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **move** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | this shadows |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **listen** | past | lady |  |  |  |  | on every wind | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on wind=Theme |
| 9 | **try** | to-infinitive | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 10 | **distinguish** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | lady | a yap or a yawn or a sneeze |  |  |  |  | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute yap=Theme |

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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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