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title: The poet had a shallow osier basket on his arm, and on his face ther… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The poet had a shallow osier basket on his arm, and on his face there was a look that was at once triumphant and gloomy. Who acts: poet, look. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 10

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The poet had a shallow osier basket on his arm, and on his face there was a look that was at once triumphant and gloomy.

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**Who acts:** poet, look · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** shallow osier basket, arm, face

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet, look), 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:pg2892:582`): 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:pg2892:23:10
# text = The poet had a shallow osier basket on his arm, and on his face there was a look that was at once triumphant and gloomy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	osier	osier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	fixed	_	_
24	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the poet | a shallow osier basket |  | poet's arm |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient |
| 2 | **be** | past | a look |  |  | poet's face; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | a look |  |  |  |  | triumphant *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | a look *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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