--- title: “We landed and we heard the rumble of water going gloomily through t… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “We landed and we heard the rumble of water going gloomily through the darkness of the forest. Who acts: We, rumble, water. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/5/18/) [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 IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/5/) / 18 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 18 “We landed and we heard the rumble of water going gloomily through the darkness of the forest. **Who acts:** We, rumble, water · **What happens:** land, hear, go, rumble · **To what, where:** rumble, darkness 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 (We, rumble, water), 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:pg2892:5:18 # text = “We landed and we heard the rumble of water going gloomily through the darkness of the forest. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 landed land VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rumble rumble NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 12 gloomily gloomily ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **land** *in a quote* | past | We | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hear** *in a quote* | past | we | the rumble of water | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | the rumble of water *not said here* | | | the darkness of the forest | | gloomily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through darkness=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **rumble** *in a quote* | | water | | | | | | nom rumble «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/5/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/5/19/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/5/)