--- title: They began to move away from the host looking for shelter, and when… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They began to move away from the host looking for shelter, and when they had gone apart a little way they turned the edge of a small hill and a knoll of trees, and in the twinkling of an eye they were in fair weather. Who acts: men, host. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/74/7/) [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 III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/74/) / 7 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 7 They began to move away from the host looking for shelter, and when they had gone apart a little way they turned the edge of a small hill and a knoll of trees, and in the twinkling of an eye they were in fair weather. **Who acts:** men, host · **What happens:** begin, move away, look, go, turn, be · **To what, where:** twinkling, edge, eye, fair weather 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 (men, host), 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:pg2892:74:7 # text = They began to move away from the host looking for shelter, and when they had gone apart a little way they turned the edge of a small hill and a knoll of trees, and in the twinkling of an eye they were in fair weather. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 18 apart apart ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 knoll knoll NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 twinkling twinkling NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 44 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | men *= man* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **move away** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look** | gerund | the host *not said here* | | | | | for shelter | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for shelter=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past · perfect | men *= man* | | | the twinkling of a eye | | apart *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in twinkling=Location | | 5 | **turn** | past | men *= man* | the edge of a small hill and a knoll of trees | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent edge=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | men *= man* | a eye *not said here* | | fair weather | | | tree rules | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/74/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/74/8/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/74/)