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title: He landed on that lovely island, and went forward under the darting… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He landed on that lovely island, and went forward under the darting birds, under the apple boughs, skirting fragrant lakes about which were woods of the sacred hazel and into which the nuts of knowledge fell and swam; and he blessed the gods of his people because of the ground that did not shiver an
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 22

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He landed on that lovely island, and went forward under the darting birds, under the apple boughs, skirting fragrant lakes about which were woods of the sacred hazel and into which the nuts of knowledge fell and swam; and he blessed the gods of his people because of the ground that did not shiver and because of the deeply rooted trees that could not gad or budge.

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**Who acts:** sun, nuts, ground, trees · **What happens:** land, go, dart, skirt, be, fall · **To what, where:** lovely island, fragrant lakes, woods, sacred hazel, gods, trees

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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, nuts, ground, trees), 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:pg2892:66:22
# text = He landed on that lovely island, and went forward under the darting birds, under the apple boughs, skirting fragrant lakes about which were woods of the sacred hazel and into which the nuts of knowledge fell and swam; and he blessed the gods of his people because of the ground that did not shiver and because of the deeply rooted trees that could not gad or budge.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	darting	dart	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	skirting	skirt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
22	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	27	det	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
51	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	54	case	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	fixed	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
56	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
58	shiver	shiver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	acl:relcl	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
60	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	fixed	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
64	rooted	root	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
65	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	obj	_	_
66	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	69	nsubj	_	_
67	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	69	aux	_	_
68	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	69	advmod	_	_
69	gad	gad	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	acl:relcl	_	_
70	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
71	budge	budge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	69	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | sun |  |  | that lovely island |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on island=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | past | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | under the darting birds and the apple boughs; forward *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under bird=Location |
| 3 | **dart** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **skirt** | gerund | sun *not said here* | fragrant lakes |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | which woods |  |  |  | of the sacred hazel | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall** | past | the nuts of knowledge |  |  | the sacred hazel |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into which=Result |
| 7 | **swim** | past | the nuts of knowledge *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **bless** | past | sun | the gods of sun's people |  |  |  | because the ground | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **shiver** | past · do-support | the ground |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **root** | past | sun *not said here* | trees |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 11 | **not** **gad** | could | trees |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **budge** | infinitive | trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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