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title: But his frame was tough as the unconquerable spirit that dwelt withi… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But his frame was tough as the unconquerable spirit that dwelt within it, and in no long time he was ready for whatever might come of dispute or anathema. Who acts: frame, unconquerable spirit, master, whatever. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tre
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 33

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But his frame was tough as the unconquerable spirit that dwelt within it, and in no long time he was ready for whatever might come of dispute or anathema.

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**Who acts:** frame, unconquerable spirit, master, whatever · **What happens:** be, dwell, come

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frame, unconquerable spirit, master, whatever), 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:pg2892:3:33
# text = But his frame was tough as the unconquerable spirit that dwelt within it, and in no long time he was ready for whatever might come of dispute or anathema.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	unconquerable	unconquerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	within	within	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	anathema	anathema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | master's frame |  |  |  |  | as the unconquerable spirit; tough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | the unconquerable spirit |  |  |  |  | within frame | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | master |  |  |  | time | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | might | whatever |  |  |  |  | of dispute or anathema | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of dispute=Initial\_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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