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title: The young man came forward then, greater-shouldered than any mighty… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The young man came forward then, greater-shouldered than any mighty man of that gathering, longer and cleaner limbed, with his fair curls dancing about his beardless face. Who acts: young man, cleaner, fair curls. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI, with its dependency t
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 36

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The young man came forward then, greater-shouldered than any mighty man of that gathering, longer and cleaner limbed, with his fair curls dancing about his beardless face.

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**Who acts:** young man, cleaner, fair curls · **What happens:** come forward, shoulder, limb, dance · **To what, where:** greater

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, cleaner, fair curls), 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:pg2892:24:36
# text = The young man came forward then, greater-shouldered than any mighty man of that gathering, longer and cleaner limbed, with his fair curls dancing about his beardless face.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	shouldered	shoulder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	gathering	gathering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	limbed	limb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	beardless	beardless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come forward** | past | the young man |  |  |  | then | forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shoulder** | participle · passive |  | greater |  |  |  | than any mighty man of that gathering | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **limb** | past | cleaner |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dance** | gerund | cleaner's fair curls |  |  |  |  | about cleaner's beardless face | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about face=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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