--- title: Then the witches rushed through the air with great cries, and fled b… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the witches rushed through the air with great cries, and fled back to Slievenamon, uttering strange curses on the Spirit of the Well, who had wished their ruin; but the woman and the house were left in peace, and a mantle dropped by one of the witches in her flight was kept hung up by the mistr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/8/32/) [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/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [The Horned Women](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/8/) / 32 # Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 32 Then the witches rushed through the air with great cries, and fled back to Slievenamon, uttering strange curses on the Spirit of the Well, who had wished their ruin; but the woman and the house were left in peace, and a mantle dropped by one of the witches in her flight was kept hung up by the mistress in memory of that night; and this mantle was kept by the same family from generation to generation for five hundred years after. **Who acts:** witches, strange curses, mantle, same family, curses · **What happens:** rush, flee back, utter, wish, leave, drop · **To what, where:** witches, air, Slievenamon, strange curses, Spirit, ruin This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witches, strange curses, mantle, same family), 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:pg7885:8:32 # text = Then the witches rushed through the air with great cries, and fled back to Slievenamon, uttering strange curses on the Spirit of the Well, who had wished their ruin; but the woman and the house were left in peace, and a mantle dropped by one of the witches in her flight was kept hung up by the mistress in memory of that night; and this mantle was kept by the same family from generation to generation for five hundred years after. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 witches witch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 4 rushed rush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cries cry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Slievenamon Slievenamon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 uttering utter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 19 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 curses curse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Spirit Spirit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Well Well PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 wished wish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 acl _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 ruin ruin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 40 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 mantle mantle NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nsubj:pass _ _ 48 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 acl _ _ 49 by by ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 obl _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 witches witch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nmod _ _ 54 in in ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 56 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ _ 57 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 58 aux:pass _ _ 58 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 conj _ _ 59 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 58 xcomp _ _ 60 up up ADP RP _ 59 compound:prt _ _ 61 by by ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obl _ _ 64 in in ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 nmod _ _ 66 of of ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 68 det _ _ 68 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 69 ; ; PUNCT , _ 74 punct _ _ 70 and and CCONJ CC _ 74 cc _ _ 71 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 72 det _ _ 72 mantle mantle NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 nsubj:pass _ _ 73 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 74 aux:pass _ _ 74 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 75 by by ADP IN _ 78 case _ _ 76 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 78 det _ _ 77 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 78 amod _ _ 78 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 obl _ _ 79 from from ADP IN _ 80 case _ _ 80 generation generation NOUN NN Number=Sing 78 nmod _ _ 81 to to ADP IN _ 82 case _ _ 82 generation generation NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 obl _ _ 83 for for ADP IN _ 86 case _ _ 84 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 85 compound _ _ 85 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 86 nummod _ _ 86 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 74 obl _ _ 87 after after ADV RB _ 86 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 88 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rush** | participle | | the witches *not said here* | | the air | | with great cries | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory | | 2 | **flee back** | past | the witches | | | Slievenamon | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to slievenamon=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **utter** *speech: other* | gerund | the witches *not said here* | strange curses | | the Spirit of the Well | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent curse=Topic | | 4 | **wish** | past · perfect | strange curses | curses's ruin | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ruin=Theme | | 5 | **leave** | past · passive | | the woman and the house | | peace | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in peace=Location | | 6 | **drop** | participle | | a mantle *not said here* | | | | by one of the witches in Witch's flight | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by one=Trajectory | | 7 | **keep** | past · passive | | a mantle | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **hang up** | participle | a mantle *not said here* | | | | | by the mistress in memory of that night | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by mistress=Location | | 9 | **keep** | past · passive | the same family from generation | this mantle | | | to generation; year | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 10 | **ruin** | | curses *= curse* | | | | | | nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/8/31/) - next →: [Conall Yellowclaw, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/9/1/) - ↑ back to [The Horned Women](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/8/)