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title: The dog’s nose lay along his breast under his chin, and as he gave i… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The dog’s nose lay along his breast under his chin, and as he gave it dutiful hugs, one hug to every five paces, the dog put out its tongue and licked him timidly under the chin. Who acts: nose. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his s
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 27

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The dog’s nose lay along his breast under his chin, and as he gave it dutiful hugs, one hug to every five paces, the dog put out its tongue and licked him timidly under the chin.

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**Who acts:** nose · **What happens:** give, put out, lick · **To what, where:** breast, tongue, nose, chin

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nose), 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:pg2892:31:27
# text = The dog’s nose lay along his breast under his chin, and as he gave it dutiful hugs, one hug to every five paces, the dog put out its tongue and licked him timidly under the chin.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lay	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	dutiful	dutiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hugs	hug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	hug	hug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
25	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	paces	pace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
30	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	licked	lick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	timidly	timidly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	under	under	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the dog's nose along nose's breast under nose's chin | breast |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient hug=Theme |
| 2 | **put out** | infinitive | the dog's nose along nose's breast under nose's chin *not said here* | breast's tongue |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tongue=Goal |
| 3 | **lick** | past | the dog's nose along nose's breast under nose's chin *not said here* | nose |  | the chin |  | timidly *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent he=Source |

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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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