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title: There were young warriors with mantles of green and purple and red f… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There were young warriors with mantles of green and purple and red flying behind them on the breeze, and when these were not looking disdainfully on older soldiers it was because the older soldiers happened at the moment to be looking at them. Who acts: young warriors, these, it. A sentence of «Iris
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 7

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There were young warriors with mantles of green and purple and red flying behind them on the breeze, and when these were not looking disdainfully on older soldiers it was because the older soldiers happened at the moment to be looking at them.

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**Who acts:** young warriors, these, it · **What happens:** be, fly, not look, look · **To what, where:** breeze, older soldiers

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young warriors, these, it), 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:pg2892:85:7
# text = There were young warriors with mantles of green and purple and red flying behind them on the breeze, and when these were not looking disdainfully on older soldiers it was because the older soldiers happened at the moment to be looking at them.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mantles	mantle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
13	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
14	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
22	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
26	disdainfully	disdainfully	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
32	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux	_	_
42	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | young warriors |  |  | there |  | with mantles of green | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | young warriors *not said here* |  |  | the breeze |  | behind warriors *= warrior* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location |
| 3 | **not** **look** | past · progressive | these |  |  |  |  | on older soldiers; disdainfully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on soldier=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | it | older soldiers *not said here* |  |  | moment | happen *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | at warriors *= warrior* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |

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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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