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title: Within the cave there was silence except for the voices of the hags… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Within the cave there was silence except for the voices of the hags and the scarcely audible moaning of the Fianna-Finn, but without there was a dreadful uproar, for as each man returned from the chase his dogs came with him, and although the men went into the cave the dogs did not. Who acts: man, d
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 1

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Within the cave there was silence except for the voices of the hags and the scarcely audible moaning of the Fianna-Finn, but without there was a dreadful uproar, for as each man returned from the chase his dogs came with him, and although the men went into the cave the dogs did not.

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**Who acts:** man, dogs, men · **What happens:** be, return, come, go, not do · **To what, where:** cave silence, dreadful uproar, chase, cave

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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 (man, dogs, 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:pg2892:60:1
# text = Within the cave there was silence except for the voices of the hags and the scarcely audible moaning of the Fianna-Finn, but without there was a dreadful uproar, for as each man returned from the chase his dogs came with him, and although the men went into the cave the dogs did not.
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	except	except	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hags	hag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	audible	audible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	moaning	moaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	uproar	uproar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
51	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
52	into	into	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
57	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
58	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	57	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | cave silence but a dreadful uproar |  |  |  | except the voices of the hags and the scarcely audible moaning of the Fianna Finn | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a dreadful uproar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** | past | each man |  |  | the chase |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from chase=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | man's dogs | the chase *not said here* |  |  |  | with man | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chase=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | the men |  |  | the cave |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **not** **do** | past | the dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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