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title: There was also the plunge and scurry of the deer, the yapping of bad… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was also the plunge and scurry of the deer, the yapping of badgers, and the whirr of birds driven into reluctant flight. Who acts: plunge, deer, birds. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 12

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There was also the plunge and scurry of the deer, the yapping of badgers, and the whirr of birds driven into reluctant flight.

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**Who acts:** plunge, deer, birds · **What happens:** be, drive, scurry, whirr · **To what, where:** whirr, reluctant flight

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plunge, deer, birds), 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:pg2892:56:12
# text = There was also the plunge and scurry of the deer, the yapping of badgers, and the whirr of birds driven into reluctant flight.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plunge	plunge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	scurry	scurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	yapping	yapping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	badgers	badger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	whirr	whirr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	reluctant	reluctant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the plunge and scurry of the deer and the yapping of badgers |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drive** | participle |  | the whirr of birds *not said here* |  | reluctant flight |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into flight=Trajectory |
| 3 | **scurry** |  | the deer |  |  |  |  |  | nom scurry «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **whirr** |  | birds |  |  |  |  |  | nom whirr «event intransitive»: of=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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