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title: The High King uncovered his eyes and saw that a woman had approached… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The High King uncovered his eyes and saw that a woman had approached driving a cow before her. Who acts: High King, woman. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 22

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The High King uncovered his eyes and saw that a woman had approached driving a cow before her.

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**Who acts:** High King, woman · **What happens:** uncover, see, approach, drive · **To what, where:** eyes, cow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (High King, woman), 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:pg2892:68:22
# text = The High King uncovered his eyes and saw that a woman had approached driving a cow before her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	uncovered	uncover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	approached	approach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
14	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **uncover** | past | the High King | King's eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | the High King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **approach** | past · perfect | a woman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drive** | gerund | a woman *not said here* | a cow |  |  | before cow |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cow=Theme before she=Destination |

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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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