--- title: As they went among these quiet giants into the dappled obscurity and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As they went among these quiet giants into the dappled obscurity and silence, their thoughts became grave, and all the motions of their minds elevated as though they must equal in greatness and dignity those ancient and glorious trees. Who acts: trees, thoughts, motions, minds. A sentence of «Irish --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/75/22/) [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 IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/75/) / 22 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 22 As they went among these quiet giants into the dappled obscurity and silence, their thoughts became grave, and all the motions of their minds elevated as though they must equal in greatness and dignity those ancient and glorious trees. **Who acts:** trees, thoughts, motions, minds · **What happens:** go, become, elevate, equal, think, motion · **To what, where:** dappled obscurity, ancient trees, greatness This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, thoughts, motions, minds), 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:pg2892:75:22 # text = As they went among these quiet giants into the dappled obscurity and silence, their thoughts became grave, and all the motions of their minds elevated as though they must equal in greatness and dignity those ancient and glorious trees. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 4 among among ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 6 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 dappled dappled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 obscurity obscurity NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 grave grave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 motions motion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 minds mind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 elevated elevate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 though though SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 equal equal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 greatness greatness NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 dignity dignity NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 41 det _ _ 38 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 glorious glorious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 41 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | trees *= tree* | | | the dappled obscurity and silence | | among this quiet giants | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into obscurity=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **become** | past | trees's thoughts | | | | | grave *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **elevate** | participle | all motions of trees's minds | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **equal** | must | trees *= tree* | that ancient trees | | greatness and dignity | | | tree rules | | 5 | **think** | | trees *= tree* | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **motion** | | trees's minds | | | | | | nom motion «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 7 | **mind** | | trees *= tree* | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/75/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/75/23/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/75/)