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title: He came down from the window and walked on the sunny lawn among the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He came down from the window and walked on the sunny lawn among the cows, looking at each of them and speaking words of affection and endearment to them all; and while he was thus walking and talking and looking and loving, he noticed that some one was moving beside him. Who acts: Mongan, one. A sen
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 15

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He came down from the window and walked on the sunny lawn among the cows, looking at each of them and speaking words of affection and endearment to them all; and while he was thus walking and talking and looking and loving, he noticed that some one was moving beside him.

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**Who acts:** Mongan, one · **What happens:** come down, walk, look, speak, talk, notice · **To what, where:** window, sunny lawn, words, cows, affection · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, one), 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:pg2892:81:15
# text = He came down from the window and walked on the sunny lawn among the cows, looking at each of them and speaking words of affection and endearment to them all; and while he was thus walking and talking and looking and loving, he noticed that some one was moving beside him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
24	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	endearment	endearment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
34	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
49	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	50	det	_	_
50	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
53	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | Mongan |  |  | the window |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from window=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **walk** | past | Mongan *not said here* |  |  | the sunny lawn |  | among the cows | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lawn=Trajectory |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | Mongan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | Mongan *not said here* | words of affection and endearment | cows *= cow* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **walk** | past · progressive | Mongan |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **talk** | gerund | Mongan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **look** | gerund | Mongan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **notice** | past | Mongan |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **move** | past · progressive | some one |  |  |  |  | beside Mongan | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme beside he=Trajectory |
| 10 | **word** |  |  | affection and endearment |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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