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description: And at that the dog gave little wriggles in his arms, and little barks, and little licks, so that he could scarcely hold her. Who acts: dog. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 32

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And at that the dog gave little wriggles in his arms, and little barks, and little licks, so that he could scarcely hold her.

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** give, hold · **To what, where:** little wriggles, arms, animal

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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 (dog), 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:pg2892:31:32
# text = And at that the dog gave little wriggles in his arms, and little barks, and little licks, so that he could scarcely hold her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	fixed	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wriggles	wriggle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	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	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	barks	bark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	licks	lick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | little wriggles |  | dog's arms |  | little barks *obl*; little licks *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wriggle=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | could | dog | animal |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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