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title: As the men were captured they were carried by the hags into dark mys… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As the men were captured they were carried by the hags into dark mysterious holes and black perplexing labyrinths. Who acts: hags. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 24

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As the men were captured they were carried by the hags into dark mysterious holes and black perplexing labyrinths.

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**Who acts:** hags · **What happens:** capture, carry, perplex · **To what, where:** men, dark mysterious holes

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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 (hags), 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:pg2892:59:24
# text = As the men were captured they were carried by the hags into dark mysterious holes and black perplexing labyrinths.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hags	hag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	perplexing	perplex	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	labyrinths	labyrinth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past · passive |  | the men |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past · passive | the hags | men *= man* |  | dark mysterious holes and black perplexing labyrinths |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **perplex** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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