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title: The lesser gentlemen looked under their brows at the greater champio… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The lesser gentlemen looked under their brows at the greater champions, and these peered furtively at the greatest of all. Who acts: lesser gentlemen, greatest. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 13

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The lesser gentlemen looked under their brows at the greater champions, and these peered furtively at the greatest of all.

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**Who acts:** lesser gentlemen, greatest · **What happens:** look, peer · **To what, where:** these

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lesser gentlemen, greatest), 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:pg2892:25:13
# text = The lesser gentlemen looked under their brows at the greater champions, and these peered furtively at the greatest of all.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lesser	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brows	brow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	peered	peer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	furtively	furtively	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	obl:agent	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the lesser gentlemen |  |  |  |  | at the greater champions; under gentlemen's brows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under brow=Theme |
| 2 | **peer** | participle · passive | the greatest | these |  |  |  | furtively *property* | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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