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title: Whistles and chirps, coos and caws and croaks, would have grown fami… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Whistles and chirps, coos and caws and croaks, would have grown familiar to him. Who acts: Whistles. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 26

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Whistles and chirps, coos and caws and croaks, would have grown familiar to him.

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**Who acts:** Whistles · **What happens:** grow

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whistles), 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:pg2892:283`): 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:pg2892:14:26
# text = Whistles and chirps, coos and caws and croaks, would have grown familiar to him.
1	Whistles	whistle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	chirps	chirp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	coos	coo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	caws	caw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	croaks	croak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would · perfect | Whistles and chirps and coos and caws and croaks |  |  |  |  | familiar *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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