--- title: He ran determinedly on that backward journey, and as the path he had… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He ran determinedly on that backward journey, and as the path he had travelled was beaten out as if it had been trampled by an hundred bulls yoked neck to neck, he was able to find the two bushes and the two coat-tails. Who acts: Carl, hundred bulls. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/52/35/) [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 V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/52/) / 35 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 35 He ran determinedly on that backward journey, and as the path he had travelled was beaten out as if it had been trampled by an hundred bulls yoked neck to neck, he was able to find the two bushes and the two coat-tails. **Who acts:** Carl, hundred bulls · **What happens:** run, travell, beat out, trample, yoke, be · **To what, where:** backward journey, path, neck, two bushes 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 (Carl, hundred bulls), 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:pg2892:52:35 # text = He ran determinedly on that backward journey, and as the path he had travelled was beaten out as if it had been trampled by an hundred bulls yoked neck to neck, he was able to find the two bushes and the two coat-tails. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 determinedly determinedly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 6 backward backward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 travelled travell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 trampled trample VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 bulls bull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 yoked yoke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 30 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 44 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 47 nummod _ _ 45 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | Carl | | | that backward journey | | determinedly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on journey=Trajectory | | 2 | **travell** | past · perfect | Carl | the path *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **beat out** | past · passive | | | | | | as the path | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V» | | 4 | **trample** | past · perfect · passive | a hundred bulls | path | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **yoke** | past | | neck | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent neck=Destination | | 6 | **is** | past | Carl | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **find** | to-infinitive | Carl *not said here* | the two bushes and the two coat tails | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Topic | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/52/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/52/36/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/52/)