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title: Small fish came sliding and flickering, and all the outlandish creat… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Small fish came sliding and flickering, and all the outlandish creatures of the deep rose by his bobbing craft and swirled and sped away. Who acts: Small fish, fish. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 10

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Small fish came sliding and flickering, and all the outlandish creatures of the deep rose by his bobbing craft and swirled and sped away.

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**Who acts:** Small fish, fish · **What happens:** come, slide, flicker, bob, swirl, speed away · **To what, where:** outlandish creatures

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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 (Small fish, fish), 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:pg2892:66:10
# text = Small fish came sliding and flickering, and all the outlandish creatures of the deep rose by his bobbing craft and swirled and sped away.
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	flickering	flicker	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	outlandish	outlandish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bobbing	bob	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	swirled	swirl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	sped	speed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Small fish | all outlandish creatures of the deep rose by fish's bobbing craft |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slide** | gerund | Small fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flicker** | gerund | Small fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bob** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **swirl** | participle | Small fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **speed away** | participle | Small fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **craft** |  | fish |  |  |  |  |  | nom craft «act transitive»: poss=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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