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title: There is a vast dark wilderness, and therein is a dark house, lonely… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a vast dark wilderness, and therein is a dark house, lonely and full of echoes, and in it there are seven gloomy hags, who are warned already of your coming and are waiting to plunge you in a bath of molten lead.” Who acts: vast dark wilderness, seven gloomy hags, your. A sentence of «Irish
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 11

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There is a vast dark wilderness, and therein is a dark house, lonely and full of echoes, and in it there are seven gloomy hags, who are warned already of your coming and are waiting to plunge you in a bath of molten lead.”

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**Who acts:** vast dark wilderness, seven gloomy hags, your · **What happens:** be, warn, come, wait, plunge · **To what, where:** dark house, wilderness, seven gloomy hags, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vast dark wilderness, seven gloomy hags, your), 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:pg2892:70:11
# text = There is a vast dark wilderness, and therein is a dark house, lonely and full of echoes, and in it there are seven gloomy hags, who are warned already of your coming and are waiting to plunge you in a bath of molten lead.”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	echoes	echo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hags	hag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	warned	warn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	already	already	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	ccomp	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	plunge	plunge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	molten	molten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a vast dark wilderness |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a dark house |  |  |  | therein *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **does** | present | seven gloomy hags |  |  | wilderness; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
| 4 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present · passive |  | seven gloomy hags |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | your |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **wait** | present · progressive | your *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **plunge** | to-infinitive | your *not said here* | you |  |  |  | in a bath of molten lead | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient you=Extent in bath=Attribute |

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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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