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title: A young girl stepped from it and walked to him among black boulders… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A young girl stepped from it and walked to him among black boulders and patches of yellow sand. Who acts: young girl. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 19

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A young girl stepped from it and walked to him among black boulders and patches of yellow sand.

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**Who acts:** young girl · **What happens:** step, walk · **To what, where:** shore, Ireland

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young girl), 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:pg2892:63:19
# text = A young girl stepped from it and walked to him among black boulders and patches of yellow sand.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	boulders	boulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | past | a young girl |  |  | shore |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory |
| 2 | **walk** | past | a young girl *not said here* |  | Ireland |  |  | among black boulders and patches of yellow sand | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result |

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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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