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title: Lean people were in every house, lean cattle in every field; the bus… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Lean people were in every house, lean cattle in every field; the bushes did not swing out their timely berries or seasonable nuts; the bees went abroad as busily as ever, but each night they returned languidly, with empty pouches, and there was no honey in their hives when the honey season came. Who
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 27

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Lean people were in every house, lean cattle in every field; the bushes did not swing out their timely berries or seasonable nuts; the bees went abroad as busily as ever, but each night they returned languidly, with empty pouches, and there was no honey in their hives when the honey season came.

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**Who acts:** you, people, bushes, bees, honey, honey season · **What happens:** lean, be, not swing out, go, return, come · **To what, where:** house, timely berries

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people, bushes, bees), 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:pg2892:65:27
# text = Lean people were in every house, lean cattle in every field; the bushes did not swing out their timely berries or seasonable nuts; the bees went abroad as busily as ever, but each night they returned languidly, with empty pouches, and there was no honey in their hives when the honey season came.
1	Lean	lean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	swing	swing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	timely	timely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	seasonable	seasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
30	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	busily	busily	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl:unmarked	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
41	languidly	languidly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	pouches	pouch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	49	expl	_	_
49	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
50	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	51	det	_	_
51	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	hives	hive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
55	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	59	mark	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
59	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | people |  |  | every house and lean cattle in every field |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **swing out** | past · do-support | the bushes | bushes's timely berries or seasonable nuts |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent berry=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | the bees |  |  |  |  | abroad, busily *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **return** | past | bees *= bee* |  |  |  | night | with empty pouches; languidly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | past | no honey in bushes's hives |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **come** | past | the honey season |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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