--- title: “That is the truth,” said Iaran in a voice of lamentation, and her f… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “That is the truth,” said Iaran in a voice of lamentation, and her face took on a gnarl and a writhe and a solidity of ugly woe that beat the other two and made even her father marvel. Who acts: That, Iaran, face, ugly woe. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/57/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/57/) / 26 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 26 “That is the truth,” said Iaran in a voice of lamentation, and her face took on a gnarl and a writhe and a solidity of ugly woe that beat the other two and made even her father marvel. **Who acts:** That, Iaran, face, ugly woe · **What happens:** be, say, take, beat, make, marvel · **To what, where:** truth, voice, gnarl, other two, father marvel · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (That, Iaran, face, ugly woe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:57:26 # text = “That is the truth,” said Iaran in a voice of lamentation, and her face took on a gnarl and a writhe and a solidity of ugly woe that beat the other two and made even her father marvel. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Iaran Iaran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 lamentation lamentation NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 gnarl gnarl NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 writhe writhe NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 solidity solidity NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 woe woe NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 39 even even ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 marvel marvel NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | the truth | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Iaran | | | a voice of lamentation | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **take** | past | face's face | | | a gnarl and a writhe and a solidity of ugly woe | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on gnarl=Destination | | 4 | **beat** | present | ugly woe | the other two | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location two=Theme | | 5 | **make** | past | ugly woe *not said here* | face's father marvel | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **marvel** | | face | | | | | | nom marvel «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/57/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/57/27/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/57/)