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title: With every passing minute a drop of lead thumped down into every hea… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With every passing minute a drop of lead thumped down into every heart, and a pang of despair stabbed up to every brain. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 11

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With every passing minute a drop of lead thumped down into every heart, and a pang of despair stabbed up to every brain.

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**What happens:** thump down, stab up · **To what, where:** lead, heart, pang

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. 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:pg2892:53:11
# text = With every passing minute a drop of lead thumped down into every heart, and a pang of despair stabbed up to every brain.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	thumped	thump	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pang	pang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	stabbed	stab	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thump down** | participle |  | lead *not said here* |  | every heart |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into heart=Location |
| 2 | **stab up** | participle |  | a pang of despair *not said here* |  |  |  | to every brain *result* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to brain=Result |

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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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