--- title: As the ship drew by the shore the watchers observed a tall man swing… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As the ship drew by the shore the watchers observed a tall man swing from the side by means of his spear shafts, and in a little while this gentleman was announced to Fionn, and was brought into his presence. Who acts: ship, watchers, spear. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/48/15/) [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 I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/48/) / 15 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 15 As the ship drew by the shore the watchers observed a tall man swing from the side by means of his spear shafts, and in a little while this gentleman was announced to Fionn, and was brought into his presence. **Who acts:** ship, watchers, spear · **What happens:** draw, observe, mean, shaft, announce, bring · **To what, where:** tall man swing, side, gentleman, Fionn, little, presence This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, watchers, spear), 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:pg2892:48:15 # text = As the ship drew by the shore the watchers observed a tall man swing from the side by means of his spear shafts, and in a little while this gentleman was announced to Fionn, and was brought into his presence. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 watchers watcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 observed observe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 nsubj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 swing swing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 of of SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 shafts shaft VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obl _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 gentleman gentleman NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 announced announce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 40 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | past | the ship | | | | | by the shore | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **observe** | past | the watchers | a tall man swing | | the side | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent swing=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **shaft** | present | person's spear | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **announce** *speech: other* | past · passive | | this gentleman | Fionn | a little | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to fionn=Recipient | | 6 | **bring** | past · passive | | | | person's presence | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into presence=Destination | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/48/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/48/16/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/48/)