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title: He had not gone a great distance from Ben Edair when he came to an i… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He had not gone a great distance from Ben Edair when he came to an intricate, gloomy wood, where the trees grew so thickly and the undergrowth was such a sprout and tangle that one could scarcely pass through it. Who acts: He, Ben, trees, undergrowth. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Steph
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 1

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He had not gone a great distance from Ben Edair when he came to an intricate, gloomy wood, where the trees grew so thickly and the undergrowth was such a sprout and tangle that one could scarcely pass through it.

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**Who acts:** He, Ben, trees, undergrowth, one · **What happens:** not go, come, grow, be, pass · **To what, where:** great distance, Ben, intricate, sprout, undergrowth

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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 (He, Ben, trees, undergrowth), 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:pg2892:49:1
# text = He had not gone a great distance from Ben Edair when he came to an intricate, gloomy wood, where the trees grew so thickly and the undergrowth was such a sprout and tangle that one could scarcely pass through it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Edair	Edair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	intricate	intricate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	undergrowth	undergrowth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	33	det:predet	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sprout	sprout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	tangle	tangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
41	through	through	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | He | a great distance |  | Ben |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | Ben |  |  | a intricate |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to intricate=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the trees |  |  |  |  | thickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the undergrowth | such sprout and tangle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** | could | one |  |  | undergrowth |  | scarcely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location |

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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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