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title: And I sat by the pool weeping my loneliness and wildness and my ster… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And I sat by the pool weeping my loneliness and wildness and my stern old age; and I could do no more than cry and lament between the earth and the sky, while the beasts that tracked me listened from behind the trees, or crouched among bushes to stare at me from their drowsy covert. Who acts: I, bea
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 15

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And I sat by the pool weeping my loneliness and wildness and my stern old age; and I could do no more than cry and lament between the earth and the sky, while the beasts that tracked me listened from behind the trees, or crouched among bushes to stare at me from their drowsy covert.

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**Who acts:** I, beasts · **What happens:** sit, weep, do, cry, lament, track · **To what, where:** loneliness, more, me, bushes, drowsy covert

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, beasts), 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:pg2892:6:15
# text = And I sat by the pool weeping my loneliness and wildness and my stern old age; and I could do no more than cry and lament between the earth and the sky, while the beasts that tracked me listened from behind the trees, or crouched among bushes to stare at me from their drowsy covert.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wildness	wildness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
22	no	no	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	obj	_	_
24	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	lament	lament	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	between	between	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	tracked	track	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	xcomp	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	crouched	crouch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
49	among	among	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	stare	stare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	advcl	_	_
53	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	_
55	from	from	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
57	drowsy	drowsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	covert	covert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | I |  |  |  |  | by the pool | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by pool=Location |
| 2 | **weep** | gerund | I *not said here* | my loneliness and wildness and my stern old age |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent loneliness=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | could | I | more |  |  |  | the beasts *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lament** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between the earth and the sky | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **track** | past | the beasts | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **listen** | participle | the beasts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the trees | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from tree=Theme |
| 8 | **crouch** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  | bushes |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bush=Location |
| 9 | **stare** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | trees's drowsy covert |  | at me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme |

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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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