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title: One morning a great noise of voices and trampling of horses and ratt… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning a great noise of voices and trampling of horses and rattle of armour came about the palace. Who acts: great noise, voices, horses, armour. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 6

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One morning a great noise of voices and trampling of horses and rattle of armour came about the palace.

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**Who acts:** great noise, voices, horses, armour · **What happens:** come, noise, trample, rattle

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great noise, voices, horses, armour), 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:pg2892:82:6
# text = One morning a great noise of voices and trampling of horses and rattle of armour came about the palace.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	trampling	trampling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	rattle	rattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a great noise of voices and trampling of horses and rattle of armour |  |  |  | morning | about the palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about palace=Location |
| 2 | **noise** |  | voices and trampling of horses and rattle of armour |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **trample** |  | horses and rattle of armour |  |  |  |  |  | nom trampling «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **rattle** |  | armour |  |  |  |  |  | nom rattle «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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