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title: “Here now was ease in ten-yard springings, with a swinging head, wit… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “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. Who acts: swallow. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 16

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“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.

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**Who acts:** swallow · **What happens:** be, swing, rise · **To what, where:** ease, yard springings

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallow), 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:pg2892:7:16
# text = “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.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	springings	springing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	swinging	swing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	curve	curve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	urge	urge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
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	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | ease and a swinging head and the rise of a swallow and the curve and flow and urge of a otter of the sea and fall |  | yard springings | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swing** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **rise** *in a quote* |  | a swallow and the curve and flow and urge of a otter of the sea |  |  |  |  |  | nom rise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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