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title: It was beautiful and tempting and savoury as it smoked on a wooden p… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was beautiful and tempting and savoury as it smoked on a wooden platter among cool green leaves; and it looked all these to Finegas when he came from behind the fringing bushes and sat in the grass outside his door. Who acts: answer, it, Fionn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens,
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 34

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It was beautiful and tempting and savoury as it smoked on a wooden platter among cool green leaves; and it looked all these to Finegas when he came from behind the fringing bushes and sat in the grass outside his door.

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**Who acts:** answer, it, Fionn · **What happens:** be, tempt, smoke, look, come, fringe · **To what, where:** wooden platter, these, Finegas, fringing bushes, grass

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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 (answer, it, Fionn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2892:23:34
# text = It was beautiful and tempting and savoury as it smoked on a wooden platter among cool green leaves; and it looked all these to Finegas when he came from behind the fringing bushes and sat in the grass outside his door.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tempting	tempt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	savoury	savoury	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	smoked	smoke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	platter	platter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
24	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Finegas	Finegas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	fringing	fringe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	amod	_	_
34	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | answer |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tempt** | gerund | answer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **be** |  | answer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **smoke** | past | answer |  |  | a wooden platter among cool green leaves |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | past | it | these | Finegas |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme this=Attribute |
| 6 | **come** | past | Fionn |  |  | the fringing bushes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bush=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **fringe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **sit** | past | Fionn *not said here* |  |  | the grass |  | outside Fionn's door | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location |

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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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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