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title: “There is no doubting it,” the prince answered from a knitted and th… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “There is no doubting it,” the prince answered from a knitted and thought-tormented brow. Who acts: doubting, prince. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 24

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“There is no doubting it,” the prince answered from a knitted and thought-tormented brow.

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**Who acts:** doubting, prince · **What happens:** be, doubting, answer, knit, think, torment · **To what, where:** knitted tormented brow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubting, prince), 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:pg2892:40:24
# text = “There is no doubting it,” the prince answered from a knitted and thought-tormented brow.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	doubting	doubting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
14	knitted	knit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tormented	torment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no doubting |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **doubting** *in a quote* |  | doubting |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the prince |  |  | a knitted tormented brow |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **knit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **torment** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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