--- title: “At times I drew near, delicately, standing among thick leaves or cr… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “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. Who acts: lumbering bear. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/29/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/) / 29 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 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. **Who acts:** lumbering bear · **What happens:** draw, stand, crouch, grow, stare, mourn · **To what, where:** thick leaves, long grown grasses · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (lumbering bear), 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:pg2892:7:29 # text = “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. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 near near ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 delicately delicately ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 11 among among ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 crouched crouch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 grasses grass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 stared stare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 mourned mourn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** *in a quote* | past | the lumbering bear *= bear* | | | | time | delicately, near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stand** *in a quote* | gerund | the lumbering bear *= bear* *not said here* | | | thick leaves | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among leaf=Location | | 3 | **crouch** *in a quote* | participle | the lumbering bear *= bear* *not said here* | | | long grown grasses | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Location | | 4 | **grow** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stare** *in a quote* | past | the lumbering bear *= bear* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mourn** *in a quote* | past | the lumbering bear *= bear* *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **look** *in a quote* | past | the lumbering bear *= bear* | | | | | on men | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on man=Theme | 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: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/30/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/)