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title: A lank-jawed, thin-browed brother, with uneasy, intertwining fingers… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A lank-jawed, thin-browed brother, with uneasy, intertwining fingers, and a deep-set, venomous eye, was the spokesman of those four. Who acts: jawed thin browed brother. 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 3

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A lank-jawed, thin-browed brother, with uneasy, intertwining fingers, and a deep-set, venomous eye, was the spokesman of those four.

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**Who acts:** jawed thin browed brother · **What happens:** jaw, brow, intertwine, be · **To what, where:** fingers, spokesman

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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 (jawed thin browed brother), 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:pg2892:44:3
# text = A lank-jawed, thin-browed brother, with uneasy, intertwining fingers, and a deep-set, venomous eye, was the spokesman of those four.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
2	lank	lank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	jawed	jaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	browed	brow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	intertwining	intertwine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	spokesman	spokesman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jaw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **brow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **intertwine** | gerund | a jawed thin browed brother and a deep set and venomous eye *not said here* | fingers |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | a jawed thin browed brother and a deep set and venomous eye | the spokesman |  |  |  | of that four | tree rules |

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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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