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title: The curls on Crimthann’s head had been indeed as a benediction to th… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The curls on Crimthann’s head had been indeed as a benediction to the queen’s eye, so that she had eaten the better and slept the sounder for seeing him. Who acts: curls, Crimthann. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 17

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The curls on Crimthann’s head had been indeed as a benediction to the queen’s eye, so that she had eaten the better and slept the sounder for seeing him.

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**Who acts:** curls, Crimthann · **What happens:** be, eat, sleep, see · **To what, where:** sounder, man

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curls, Crimthann), 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:pg2892:42:17
# text = The curls on Crimthann’s head had been indeed as a benediction to the queen’s eye, so that she had eaten the better and slept the sounder for seeing him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Crimthann	Crimthann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	benediction	benediction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sounder	sounder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the curls on Crimthann's head |  |  |  |  | as a benediction; to the queen's eye; indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | past · perfect | Crimthann |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | Crimthann *not said here* | the sounder |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sounder=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | Crimthann *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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