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title: And the hard-fighting pillar of battle turned to where his arms hung… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the hard-fighting pillar of battle turned to where his arms hung on the wall behind him. 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 77

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And the hard-fighting pillar of battle turned to where his arms hung on the wall behind him.

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**What happens:** fight, turn, hang · **To what, where:** battle, arms, wall

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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: 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:pg2892:46:77
# text = And the hard-fighting pillar of battle turned to where his arms hung on the wall behind him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn** | participle |  | battle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hang** | participle · passive |  | Goll's arms |  | the wall |  | behind Goll | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on wall=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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