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title: Eight silken smocks embroidered with gold, eight precious brooches o… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Eight silken smocks embroidered with gold, eight precious brooches of beaten gold, three diadems of pure gold.” 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 20

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Eight silken smocks embroidered with gold, eight precious brooches of beaten gold, three diadems of pure gold.”

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**What happens:** embroider, beat · **To what, where:** Eight silken smocks

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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: 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:pg2892:41:20
# text = Eight silken smocks embroidered with gold, eight precious brooches of beaten gold, three diadems of pure gold.”
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	smocks	smock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	brooches	brooch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	diadems	diadem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embroider** | participle |  | Eight silken smocks and eight precious brooches of beaten gold and three diadems of pure gold *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme |
| 2 | **beat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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