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title: Here two champions with their arms round each other’s necks were sta… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here two champions with their arms round each other’s necks were stamping round and round in a slow, sad dance. Who acts: other necks. 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 62

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Here two champions with their arms round each other’s necks were stamping round and round in a slow, sad dance.

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**Who acts:** other necks · **What happens:** stamp · **To what, where:** slow sad dance

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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 (other necks), 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:pg2892:46:62
# text = Here two champions with their arms round each other’s necks were stamping round and round in a slow, sad dance.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	stamping	stamp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
14	round	round	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	round	round	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** | past · progressive | each other necks |  |  | a slow sad dance |  | round *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in dance=Destination |

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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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