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title: “I could smell one of them and it wrapped around a little tree thirt… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I could smell one of them and it wrapped around a little tree thirty miles back,” said Cael, “and the other one was dishonouring a bush ten miles behind that.” Who acts: Cael, tail, other one. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 29

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“I could smell one of them and it wrapped around a little tree thirty miles back,” said Cael, “and the other one was dishonouring a bush ten miles behind that.”

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**Who acts:** Cael, tail, other one · **What happens:** smell, wrap, say, dishonour · **To what, where:** one, little tree, bush · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cael, tail, other one), 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:pg2892:52:29
# text = “I could smell one of them and it wrapped around a little tree thirty miles back,” said Cael, “and the other one was dishonouring a bush ten miles behind that.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	Cael	Cael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	dishonouring	dishonour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
34	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** *in a quote* | could | Cael | one of riddles |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wrap** *in a quote* | past | tail |  |  | a little tree |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around tree=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Cael |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **dishonour** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the other one | a bush |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus bush=Experiencer mile=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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