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title: For where there had been a road with hedges on each side and fields… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For where there had been a road with hedges on each side and fields stretching beyond them, there was now no road, no hedge, no field; but there was a great broad river sweeping across their path; a mighty tumble of yellowy-brown waters, very swift, very savage; churning and billowing and jockeying 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 26

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For where there had been a road with hedges on each side and fields stretching beyond them, there was now no road, no hedge, no field; but there was a great broad river sweeping across their path; a mighty tumble of yellowy-brown waters, very swift, very savage; churning and billowing and jockeying among rough boulders and islands of stone.

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**Who acts:** road, fields, great broad river, brown waters · **What happens:** be, stretch, sweep, churn, billow, jockey · **To what, where:** great broad river, path

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, fields, great broad river, brown waters), 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:pg2892:86:26
# text = For where there had been a road with hedges on each side and fields stretching beyond them, there was now no road, no hedge, no field; but there was a great broad river sweeping across their path; a mighty tumble of yellowy-brown waters, very swift, very savage; churning and billowing and jockeying among rough boulders and islands of stone.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
38	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
39	across	across	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	tumble	tumble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	yellowy	yellowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	very	very	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	very	very	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
58	churning	churn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	conj	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	billowing	billow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	58	conj	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	jockeying	jockey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	58	conj	_	_
63	among	among	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	boulders	boulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obl	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
67	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	conj	_	_
68	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past · perfect | a road with hedges on each side and fields |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stretch** | gerund | fields *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beyond men *= man* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a great broad river and a mighty tumble of brown waters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sweep** | gerund | a great broad river and a mighty tumble of brown waters *not said here* |  |  | men's path |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across path=Trajectory |
| 5 | **churn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **billow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **jockey** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | among rough boulders and islands of stone | tree rules |
| 8 | **tumble** |  | brown waters |  |  |  |  |  | nom tumble «act 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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