--- title: “I slept, and I saw myself changing into a boar in dream, and I felt… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “I slept, and I saw myself changing into a boar in dream, and I felt in dream the beating of a new heart within me, and in dream I stretched my powerful neck and braced my eager limbs. Who acts: I, myself. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, myself), 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:pg2892:8:3 # text = “I slept, and I saw myself changing into a boar in dream, and I felt in dream the beating of a new heart within me, and in dream I stretched my powerful neck and braced my eager limbs. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ 9 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 boar boar NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 beating beating NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 within within ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 braced brace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 40 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 eager eager ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 limbs limb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | I | myself | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **change** *in a quote* | gerund | myself *not said here* | | | | | into a boar *result*; in dream | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into boar=Result | | 4 | **feel** *in a quote* | past | I | the beating of a new heart | | dream | | within me | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beating=Theme in dream=Location | | 5 | **stretch** *in a quote* | past | I | my powerful neck | | | | in dream | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Patient in dream=Topic | | 6 | **brace** *in a quote* | past | I *not said here* | my eager limbs | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **beat** *in a quote* | | | a new heart | | | | | nom beating «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/8/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/8/4/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/8/)