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title: Over all that land the sun shone warm and beautiful, so that to our… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Over all that land the sun shone warm and beautiful, so that to our sea-weary eyes, our wind-tormented ears, it seemed as if we were driving on Paradise. Who acts: sun, it, we. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 17

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Over all that land the sun shone warm and beautiful, so that to our sea-weary eyes, our wind-tormented ears, it seemed as if we were driving on Paradise.

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**Who acts:** sun, it, we · **What happens:** shine, torment, seem, drive · **To what, where:** land, Paradise

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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 (sun, it, we), 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:pg2892:5:17
# text = Over all that land the sun shone warm and beautiful, so that to our sea-weary eyes, our wind-tormented ears, it seemed as if we were driving on Paradise.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	19	case	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tormented	torment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	xcomp	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  | all land |  | so our weary eyes and our tormented ears; warm *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Location |
| 2 | **torment** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **drive** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | we |  |  | Paradise |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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