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title: It had been a beautiful day, with brilliant sunshine and great sport… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It had been a beautiful day, with brilliant sunshine and great sport, but suddenly clouds began to gather in the sky to the west, and others came rushing blackly from the east. Who acts: teller, clouds, others. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tre
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 4

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It had been a beautiful day, with brilliant sunshine and great sport, but suddenly clouds began to gather in the sky to the west, and others came rushing blackly from the east.

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**Who acts:** teller, clouds, others · **What happens:** be, begin, gather, come, rush · **To what, where:** beautiful day, sky, east

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teller, clouds, others), 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:pg2892:74:4
# text = It had been a beautiful day, with brilliant sunshine and great sport, but suddenly clouds began to gather in the sky to the west, and others came rushing blackly from the east.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
31	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
32	blackly	blackly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | past · perfect | teller | a beautiful day and brilliant sunshine and great sport |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | clouds | a beautiful day and brilliant sunshine and great sport *not said here* |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **gather** | to-infinitive | clouds *not said here* |  |  | the sky |  | to the west | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to west=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past | others |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rush** | gerund | others *not said here* |  |  | the east |  | blackly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from east=Trajectory |

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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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