--- title: She stepped into a coracle, it was pushed on the enchanted waters, a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She stepped into a coracle, it was pushed on the enchanted waters, and it went forward, world within world, until land appeared, and her boat swung in low tide against a rock at the foot of Ben Edair. Who acts: One, coracle, land, boat. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, coracle, land, boat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2892:1896`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:62:29 # text = She stepped into a coracle, it was pushed on the enchanted waters, and it went forward, world within world, until land appeared, and her boat swung in low tide against a rock at the foot of Ben Edair. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 coracle coracle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 enchanted enchant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 forward forward ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 within within ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 until until SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 swung swing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 against against ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 Edair Edair PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 flat _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **step** | past | One | | | a coracle | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into coracle=Destination | | 2 | **push** | past · passive | | coracle | | the enchanted waters | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on water=Trajectory | | 3 | **enchant** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **go** | past | coracle | world within world | | | | forward *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **appear** | past | land | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **swing** | past | One's boat | | | low tide | | against a rock at the foot of Ben | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in tide=Source against rock=Trajectory | 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. **Text:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/62/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/62/30/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/62/)