--- title: The singers, the harpers, and jugglers submitted to that constraint,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The singers, the harpers, and jugglers submitted to that constraint, so that every person felt awkward and no one knew what should be done or what would happen, and from that doubt dulness came, with silence following on its heels. Who acts: singers, one, silence. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/46/5/) [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 II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/46/) / 5 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 5 The singers, the harpers, and jugglers submitted to that constraint, so that every person felt awkward and no one knew what should be done or what would happen, and from that doubt dulness came, with silence following on its heels. **Who acts:** singers, one, silence · **What happens:** submit, feel, know, do, happen, come · **To what, where:** jugglers, doubt dulness, heels · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (singers, one, silence), 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:pg2892:46:5 # text = The singers, the harpers, and jugglers submitted to that constraint, so that every person felt awkward and no one knew what should be done or what would happen, and from that doubt dulness came, with silence following on its heels. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 singers singer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 harpers harper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 jugglers juggler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 9 submitted submit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 constraint constraint NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 18 mark _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 awkward awkward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 obj _ _ 25 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 ccomp _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 31 nsubj _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 36 doubt doubt NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 dulness dulness NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 38 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 acl _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 heels heel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **submit** | participle | | jugglers *not said here* | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **feel** | past | the singers and the harpers and jugglers | | | | | awkward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **know** | past | no one | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **do** | should · passive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality | | 5 | **happen** | would | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **come** | past | the singers and the harpers and jugglers *not said here* | | | that doubt dulness | | with silence | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from dulness=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **follow** | gerund | silence *not said here* | | | person's heels | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on heel=Location | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/46/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/46/6/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/46/)