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title: They stood outside, filled with savagery and terror, for they could… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They stood outside, filled with savagery and terror, for they could scent their masters and their masters’ danger, and perhaps they could get from the cave smells till then unknown and full of alarm. Who acts: dogs, cave. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its depen
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 3

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They stood outside, filled with savagery and terror, for they could scent their masters and their masters’ danger, and perhaps they could get from the cave smells till then unknown and full of alarm.

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**Who acts:** dogs, cave · **What happens:** stand, fill, get, smell

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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 (dogs, cave), 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:pg2892:60:3
# text = They stood outside, filled with savagery and terror, for they could scent their masters and their masters’ danger, and perhaps they could get from the cave smells till then unknown and full of alarm.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	savagery	savagery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
28	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
32	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
34	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  | for scent and dogs's masters and dogs's masters's danger; outside *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for scent=Attribute |
| 2 | **fill** | participle | dogs *= dog* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with savagery and terror | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with savagery=Instrument |
| 3 | **get** | could | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **smell** | present | the cave |  |  |  |  | unknown *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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