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title: At Sliav Saev he encountered the long-maned lions who lie in wait fo… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At Sliav Saev he encountered the long-maned lions who lie in wait for the beasts of the world, growling woefully as they squat above their prey and crunch those terrified bones. Who acts: head, long maned lions, lions. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X, with its dependen
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 10

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At Sliav Saev he encountered the long-maned lions who lie in wait for the beasts of the world, growling woefully as they squat above their prey and crunch those terrified bones.

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**Who acts:** head, long maned lions, lions · **What happens:** encounter, lie, growl, squat · **To what, where:** long maned lions, Sliav, wait, terrified bones, prey

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, long maned lions, lions), 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:pg2892:71:10
# text = At Sliav Saev he encountered the long-maned lions who lie in wait for the beasts of the world, growling woefully as they squat above their prey and crunch those terrified bones.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Sliav	Sliav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	Saev	Saev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	maned	maned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	growling	growl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
23	woefully	woefully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	squat	squat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
27	above	above	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	crunch	crunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
33	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encounter** | past | head | the long maned lions |  | Sliav |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lie** | present | the long maned lions |  |  | wait |  | for the beasts of the world | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wait=Location |
| 3 | **growl** | gerund | head *not said here* |  |  |  |  | woefully *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **squat** | present | lions *= lion* | that terrified bones |  | lions's prey and crunch |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme bone=Location |

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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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