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title: He turned then and saw the island, fragrant with apple trees, sweet… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He turned then and saw the island, fragrant with apple trees, sweet with wells of wine; and, hearkening towards the shore, his ears, dulled yet with the unending rhythms of the sea, distinguished and were filled with song; for the isle was, as it were, a nest of birds, and they sang joyously, sweetl
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 21

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He turned then and saw the island, fragrant with apple trees, sweet with wells of wine; and, hearkening towards the shore, his ears, dulled yet with the unending rhythms of the sea, distinguished and were filled with song; for the isle was, as it were, a nest of birds, and they sang joyously, sweetly, triumphantly.

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**Who acts:** sun, heart, islands · **What happens:** turn, see, hearken, dull, fill, be · **To what, where:** island, nest

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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 (sun, heart, islands), 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:pg2892:66:21
# text = He turned then and saw the island, fragrant with apple trees, sweet with wells of wine; and, hearkening towards the shore, his ears, dulled yet with the unending rhythms of the sea, distinguished and were filled with song; for the isle was, as it were, a nest of birds, and they sang joyously, sweetly, triumphantly.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	wells	well	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	hearkening	hearken	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
23	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	dulled	dull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
31	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	unending	unending	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	rhythms	rhythm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	parataxis	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	conj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
50	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
52	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
54	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
62	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
63	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
64	joyously	joyously	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
66	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
68	triumphantly	triumphantly	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | sun |  |  |  | then |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | sun *not said here* | the island |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hearken** | gerund | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards the shore and sun's ears | tree rules |
| 4 | **dull** | participle |  |  |  |  | yet | with the unending rhythms of the sea | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with rhythm=Instrument |
| 5 | **fill** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with song | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with song=Instrument |
| 6 | **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for the isle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | past | heart | a nest |  |  |  | of birds | tree rules |
| 8 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | islands *= island* |  |  |  |  | joyously, sweetly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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