--- title: “How I flew through the soft element: how I joyed in the country whe… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “How I flew through the soft element: how I joyed in the country where there is no harshness: in the element which upholds and gives way; which caresses and lets go, and will not let you fall. Who acts: excellent wisdom, element, you. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/9/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter VIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/9/) / 27 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 27 “How I flew through the soft element: how I joyed in the country where there is no harshness: in the element which upholds and gives way; which caresses and lets go, and will not let you fall. **Who acts:** excellent wisdom, element, you · **What happens:** fly, joy, be, uphold, give, caress · **To what, where:** soft element, harshness, country, way, you This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (excellent wisdom, element, you), 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:pg2892:9:27 # text = “How I flew through the soft element: how I joyed in the country where there is no harshness: in the element which upholds and gives way; which caresses and lets go, and will not let you fall. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 element element NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 joyed joy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 16 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 17 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 harshness harshness NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 element element NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 upholds uphold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 29 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 caresses caress VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 35 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** *in a quote* | past | Tuatha's excellent wisdom and intelligence *= wisdom* | | | the soft element | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through element=Location | | 2 | **joy** *in a quote* | past | Tuatha's excellent wisdom and intelligence *= wisdom* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | no harshness | | the country | | | tree rules | | 4 | **uphold** *in a quote* | present | the element | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | present | the element *not said here* | way | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 6 | **caress** *in a quote* | present | the element | | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **let** *in a quote* | present | the element *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | the element *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | future | Tuatha's excellent wisdom and intelligence *= wisdom* *not said here* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **fall** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/9/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/9/28/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/9/)