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title: Then, sitting on a branch, she looked with angry woe at the strainin… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, sitting on a branch, she looked with angry woe at the straining and snarling horde below, seeing many a white fang in those grinning jowls, and the smouldering, red blink of those leaping and prowling eyes. Who acts: mistress. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, wi
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 56

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Then, sitting on a branch, she looked with angry woe at the straining and snarling horde below, seeing many a white fang in those grinning jowls, and the smouldering, red blink of those leaping and prowling eyes.

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**Who acts:** mistress · **What happens:** sit, look, see, grin, leap, prowl · **To what, where:** branch, many, leaping eyes

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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 (mistress), 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:pg2892:41:56
# text = Then, sitting on a branch, she looked with angry woe at the straining and snarling horde below, seeing many a white fang in those grinning jowls, and the smouldering, red blink of those leaping and prowling eyes.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	straining	straining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	snarling	snarling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	horde	horde	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	below	below	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fang	fang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	amod	_	_
29	jowls	jowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	smouldering	smouldering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	blink	blink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
39	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	amod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	prowling	prowl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	conj	_	_
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund | mistress *not said here* |  |  | a branch | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location |
| 2 | **look** | past | mistress |  |  |  |  | with angry woe; at the straining and snarling horde | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at straining=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | mistress *not said here* | many |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer many=Stimulus |
| 4 | **grin** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **leap** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **prowl** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **blink** |  |  | that leaping eyes |  |  |  |  | nom blink «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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