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title: And the wolves feared me then, and the great, grim bear went boundin… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the wolves feared me then, and the great, grim bear went bounding on heavy paws. Who acts: wolves, great grim bear. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 10

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And the wolves feared me then, and the great, grim bear went bounding on heavy paws.

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**Who acts:** wolves, great grim bear · **What happens:** fear, go, bound · **To what, where:** me, heavy paws

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolves, great grim bear), 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:pg2892:8:10
# text = And the wolves feared me then, and the great, grim bear went bounding on heavy paws.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	bounding	bound	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past | the wolves | me |  |  | then |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | past | the great grim bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bound** | gerund | the great grim bear *not said here* |  |  | heavy paws |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on paw=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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