---
title: A sun beamed thence that filled the air with sparkle and the sea wit… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A sun beamed thence that filled the air with sparkle and the sea with a thousand lights, and looking on these he was reminded of his home at Tara: of the columns of white and yellow bronze that blazed out sunnily on the sun, and the red and white and yellow painted roofs that beamed at and astonishe
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/66/15/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/66/) / 15

# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 15

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A sun beamed thence that filled the air with sparkle and the sea with a thousand lights, and looking on these he was reminded of his home at Tara: of the columns of white and yellow bronze that blazed out sunnily on the sun, and the red and white and yellow painted roofs that beamed at and astonished the eye.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** sun, white bronze, red painted roofs · **What happens:** beam, fill, look, remind, blaze out, paint · **To what, where:** sun, air, eye

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (sun, white bronze, red painted roofs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2892:66:15
# text = A sun beamed thence that filled the air with sparkle and the sea with a thousand lights, and looking on these he was reminded of his home at Tara: of the columns of white and yellow bronze that blazed out sunnily on the sun, and the red and white and yellow painted roofs that beamed at and astonished the eye.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	beamed	beam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sparkle	sparkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	reminded	remind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	columns	column	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
39	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	out	out	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	sunnily	sunnily	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
50	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	conj	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	conj	_	_
55	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	amod	_	_
56	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
57	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
58	beamed	beam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	acl:relcl	_	_
59	at	at	ADP	IN	_	58	obl	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	astonished	astonish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	conj	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beam** | participle |  | a sun *not said here* |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | past | a sun | the air |  |  |  | with sparkle and the sea with thousand lights; of the columns of white bronze and the red painted roofs | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with sparkle=Instrument |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | on these | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on this=Theme |
| 4 | **remind** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | sun |  |  |  | of sun's home at Tara | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of home=Topic |
| 5 | **blaze out** | past | white bronze |  |  | the sun |  | sunnily *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sun=Location |
| 6 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **beam** | past | the red painted roofs |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **astonish** | past | the red painted roofs *not said here* | the eye |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/66/14/)
- next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/66/16/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/66/)