--- title: IT was so early that not even a bird was yet awake, and the dull gre… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: IT was so early that not even a bird was yet awake, and the dull grey light that came from the atmosphere enlarged and made indistinct all that one looked at, and swathed all things in a cold and livid gloom. Who acts: IT, bird, dull grey light, one. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/43/1/) [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 IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/43/) / 1 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 1 IT was so early that not even a bird was yet awake, and the dull grey light that came from the atmosphere enlarged and made indistinct all that one looked at, and swathed all things in a cold and livid gloom. **Who acts:** IT, bird, dull grey light, one · **What happens:** be, come, enlarge, make, look, swathe · **To what, where:** atmosphere, things This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (IT, bird, dull grey light, one), 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:pg2892:43:1 # text = IT was so early that not even a bird was yet awake, and the dull grey light that came from the atmosphere enlarged and made indistinct all that one looked at, and swathed all things in a cold and livid gloom. 1 IT it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 yet yet ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 atmosphere atmosphere NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 enlarged enlarge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 indistinct indistinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 30 det:predet _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 swathed swathe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 36 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 37 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 40 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 livid livid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ _ 43 gloom gloom NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | IT | | | | | early *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | a bird | | | | yet | awake *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | past | the dull grey light | | | the atmosphere | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from atmosphere=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **enlarge** | past | the dull grey light | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **make** | past | the dull grey light *not said here* | | | | | indistinct *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **look** | past | all one | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **swathe** | past | the dull grey light *not said here* | all things | | | | in a cold gloom | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=Destination in gloom=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: [Chapter III, 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/42/41/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/43/2/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/43/)