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title: And the two men stared into the hillside as though what they were lo… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the two men stared into the hillside as though what they were looking at was too wonderful to be looked away from. Who acts: two men, men. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 18

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And the two men stared into the hillside as though what they were looking at was too wonderful to be looked away from.

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**Who acts:** two men, men · **What happens:** stare, look, be, look away

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two men, men), 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:pg2892:58:18
# text = And the two men stared into the hillside as though what they were looking at was too wonderful to be looked away from.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** | past | the two men |  |  |  |  | into the hillside | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into hillside=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past · progressive | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look away** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute» |

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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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