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title: Pressed against the wall was a bevy of ladies, some of whom were scr… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Pressed against the wall was a bevy of ladies, some of whom were screaming and some laughing and all of whom were calling on the men to go back to their seats. Who acts: some, laughing. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 68

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Pressed against the wall was a bevy of ladies, some of whom were screaming and some laughing and all of whom were calling on the men to go back to their seats.

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**Who acts:** some, laughing · **What happens:** press, be, scream, call, go back · **To what, where:** bevy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (some, laughing), 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:pg2892:46:68
# text = Pressed against the wall was a bevy of ladies, some of whom were screaming and some laughing and all of whom were calling on the men to go back to their seats.
1	Pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
2	against	against	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bevy	bevy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	appos	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	laughing	laughing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nmod	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | against the wall | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against wall=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a bevy |  |  |  | of ladies | tree rules |
| 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | past · progressive | some |  |  |  |  | of a bevy | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **call** | past · progressive | some laughing |  |  |  |  | on the men | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go back** | to-infinitive | some laughing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to men's seats *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to seat=Result |

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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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