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title: He shook the iron chain so that the servants and followers of the ho… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He shook the iron chain so that the servants and followers of the household should be silent, and he shook the silver one so that the nobles and poets should hearken also. Who acts: crier, servants, nobles. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 37

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He shook the iron chain so that the servants and followers of the household should be silent, and he shook the silver one so that the nobles and poets should hearken also.

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**Who acts:** crier, servants, nobles · **What happens:** shake, be, hearken · **To what, where:** iron chain, silver

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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 (crier, servants, nobles), 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:pg2892:45:37
# text = He shook the iron chain so that the servants and followers of the household should be silent, and he shook the silver one so that the nobles and poets should hearken also.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
33	also	also	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past | crier | the iron chain |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent chain=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | should | the servants of the household and followers |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shake** | past | crier | the silver |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent silver=Patient |
| 4 | **hearken** | should | the nobles and poets |  |  |  |  |  | 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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