--- title: “THERE I dreamed, and I saw myself changing into a stag in dream, an… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “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. Who acts: I, myself. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, myself), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:7:1 # text = “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. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 THERE there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 8 obj _ _ 10 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 stag stag NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 beating beating NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 within within ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 arched arch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 braced brace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 40 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 limbs limb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dream** *in a quote* | past | I | | | there | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | I | myself | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **change** *in a quote* | gerund | myself *not said here* | | | | | into a stag *result*; in dream | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into stag=Result | | 4 | **feel** *in a quote* | past | I | the beating of a new heart | | dream | | within me | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beating=Theme in dream=Location | | 5 | **arch** *in a quote* | past | I | my neck | | | | in dream | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Patient in dream=Topic | | 6 | **brace** *in a quote* | past | I *not said here* | my powerful limbs | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **beat** *in a quote* | | | a new heart | | | | | nom beating «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [Chapter V. “Tell on, my love…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/6/27/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/2/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/)