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title: Art og mac Morna of the Hard Strokes fell to biting his fingers, Con… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Art og mac Morna of the Hard Strokes fell to biting his fingers, Cona’n the Swearer and Garra mac Morna grumbled irritably to each other and at their neighbours, even Caelte, the son of Rona’n, looked down into his own lap, and Goll Mor sipped at his wine without any twinkle in his eye. Who acts: Ar
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 14

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Art og mac Morna of the Hard Strokes fell to biting his fingers, Cona’n the Swearer and Garra mac Morna grumbled irritably to each other and at their neighbours, even Caelte, the son of Rona’n, looked down into his own lap, and Goll Mor sipped at his wine without any twinkle in his eye.

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**Who acts:** Art og mac, Cona’n, Caelte, Goll · **What happens:** fall, bite, grumble, look down, sip · **To what, where:** fingers, each

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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 (Art og mac, Cona’n, Caelte, Goll), 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:pg2892:25:14
# text = Art og mac Morna of the Hard Strokes fell to biting his fingers, Cona’n the Swearer and Garra mac Morna grumbled irritably to each other and at their neighbours, even Caelte, the son of Rona’n, looked down into his own lap, and Goll Mor sipped at his wine without any twinkle in his eye.
1	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	og	og	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mac	mac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Hard	Hard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Strokes	Stroke	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	biting	bite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	Swearer	Swearer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Garra	Garra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
22	grumbled	grumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	irritably	irritably	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	22	obl	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	fixed	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	Caelte	Caelte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Rona’n	Rona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
40	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
41	down	down	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	into	into	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	Mor	Mor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	flat	_	_
50	sipped	sip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	without	without	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	56	det	_	_
56	twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Art og mac |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bite** | gerund | Art og mac *not said here* | mac's fingers |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
| 3 | **grumble** *speech: other* | past | Cona’n |  | each |  |  | irritably *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
| 4 | **look down** | past | Caelte |  |  |  |  | into mac's own lap; at fingers's neighbours; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at neighbour=Theme |
| 5 | **sip** | past | Goll |  |  |  |  | without any twinkle in mac's eye; at mac's wine | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at wine=Patient |

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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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