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title: The boy looked down on him, and in the noble trust and fearlessness… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy looked down on him, and in the noble trust and fearlessness of that regard Fionn’s heart melted away. Who acts: boy, regard. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 30

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The boy looked down on him, and in the noble trust and fearlessness of that regard Fionn’s heart melted away.

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**Who acts:** boy, regard · **What happens:** look down, melt away, trust · **To what, where:** noble trust, heart

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, regard), 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:pg2892:37:30
# text = The boy looked down on him, and in the noble trust and fearlessness of that regard Fionn’s heart melted away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	fearlessness	fearlessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look down** | past | the boy |  |  | the noble trust of that regard  Fionn's heart and fearlessness |  | on mac | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme |
| 2 | **melt away** | participle |  | Fionn's heart *not said here* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **trust** |  | that regard  Fionn's heart |  |  |  |  |  | nom trust «possession intransitive»: of=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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