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title: Her slender foot set his heart beating; and whatever way her head mo… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Her slender foot set his heart beating; and whatever way her head moved there came a new shape of beauty to her face. Who acts: slender foot, whatever, head, way. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 66

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Her slender foot set his heart beating; and whatever way her head moved there came a new shape of beauty to her face.

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**Who acts:** slender foot, whatever, head, way, foot · **What happens:** set, way, move, come, beat · **To what, where:** heart beating, way, new shape

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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 (slender foot, whatever, head, way), 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:pg2892:34:66
# text = Her slender foot set his heart beating; and whatever way her head moved there came a new shape of beauty to her face.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | lark's slender foot | foot's heart beating |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient beating=Result |
| 2 | **way** |  | whatever |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | past | lark's head | way *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | way | a new shape of beauty |  |  |  | to lark's face | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shape=Theme |
| 5 | **beat** |  | foot |  |  |  |  |  | nom beating «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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