--- title: Chapter VI — Irish Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: Chapter VI, «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: “THERE I dreamed, and I saw myself changing into a stag in dream, and I felt in dream the beating of a new heart within me, and in dream I arched my neck and brace --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/) [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 VI # Chapter VI Chapter VI of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens: the whole text, 44 sentences and 728 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/1/) — “THERE I dreamed, and I saw myself changing into a stag in dream, and I felt in dream the beating of a new heart within me, and in dream I arched my neck and braced my powerful limbs. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/2/) — “I awoke from the dream, and I was that which I had dreamed. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/3/) — “I stood a while stamping upon a rock, with my bristling head swung high, breathing through wide nostrils all the savour of the world. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/4/) — For I had come marvellously from decrepitude to strength. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/5/) — I had writhed from the bonds of age and was young again. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/6/) — I smelled the turf and knew for the first time how sweet that smelled. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/7/) — And like lightning my moving nose sniffed all things to my heart and separated them into knowledge. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/8/) — “Long I stood there, ringing my iron hoof on stone, and learning all things through my nose. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/9/) — Each breeze that came from the right hand or the left brought me a tale. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/10/) — A wind carried me the tang of wolf, and against that smell I stared and stamped. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/11/) — And on a wind there came the scent of my own kind, and at that I belled. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/12/) — Oh, loud and clear and sweet was the voice of the great stag. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/13/) — With what ease my lovely note went lilting. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/14/) — With what joy I heard the answering call. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/15/) — With what delight I bounded, bounded, bounded; light as a bird’s plume, powerful as a storm, untiring as the sea. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/16/) — “Here now was ease in ten-yard springings, with a swinging head, with the rise and fall of a swallow, with the curve and flow and urge of an otter of the sea. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/17/) — What a tingle dwelt about my heart! - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/18/) — What a thrill spun to the lofty points of my antlers! - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/19/) — How the world was new! - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/20/) — How the sun was new! - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/21/) — How the wind caressed me! - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/22/) — “With unswerving forehead and steady eye I met all that came. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/23/) — The old, lone wolf leaped sideways, snarling, and slunk away. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/24/) — The lumbering bear swung his head of hesitations and thought again; he trotted his small red eye away with him to a near-by brake. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/25/) — The stags of my race fled from my rocky forehead, or were pushed back and back until their legs broke under them and I trampled them to death. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/26/) — I was the beloved, the well known, the leader of the herds of Ireland. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/27/) — “And at times I came back from my boundings about Eire’, for the strings of my heart were drawn to Ulster; and, standing away, my wide nose took the air, while I knew with joy, with terror, that men were blown on the wind. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/28/) — A proud head hung to the turf then, and the tears of memory rolled from a large, bright eye. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/29/) — “At times I drew near, delicately, standing among thick leaves or crouched in long grown grasses, and I stared and mourned as I looked on men. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/30/) — For Nemed and four couples had been saved from that fierce storm, and I saw them increase and multiply until four thousand couples lived and laughed and were riotous in the sun, for the people of Nemed had small minds but great activity. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/31/) — They were savage fighters and hunters. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/32/) — “But one time I came, drawn by that intolerable anguish of memory, and all of these people were gone: the place that knew them was silent: in the land where they had moved there was nothing of them but their bones that glinted in the sun. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/33/) — “Old age came on me there. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/34/) — Among these bones weariness crept into my limbs. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/35/) — My head grew heavy, my eyes dim, my knees jerked and trembled, and there the wolves dared chase me. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/36/) — “I went again to the cave that had been my home when I was an old man. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/37/) — “One day I stole from the cave to snatch a mouthful of grass, for I was closely besieged by wolves. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/38/) — They made their rush, and I barely escaped from them. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/39/) — They sat beyond the cave staring at me. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/40/) — “I knew their tongue. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/41/) — I knew all that they said to each other, and all that they said to me. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/42/) — But there was yet a thud left in my forehead, a deadly trample in my hoof. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/43/) — They did not dare come into the cave. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/44/) — “‘To-morrow,’ they said, ‘we will tear out your throat, and gnaw on your living haunch’.” - ← previous: [Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/6/) - next →: [Chapter VII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/8/) - ↑ back to [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/)