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title: The sweet air was my kingdom, and my bright eye stared on a hundred… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The sweet air was my kingdom, and my bright eye stared on a hundred miles. Who acts: sweet air, bright eye. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 5

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The sweet air was my kingdom, and my bright eye stared on a hundred miles.

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**Who acts:** sweet air, bright eye · **What happens:** be, stare · **To what, where:** kingdom

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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 (sweet air, bright eye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2892:177`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:9:5
# text = The sweet air was my kingdom, and my bright eye stared on a hundred miles.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the sweet air | my kingdom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stare** | past | my bright eye |  |  |  |  | on a hundred miles | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on mile=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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