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title: And the corded champion whimpered in her arms, for he did not know b… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the corded champion whimpered in her arms, for he did not know but eating might indeed be his fate, and he would have preferred to be coffined anywhere in the world rather than to be coffined inside of that face. Who acts: corded champion, lip. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 29

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And the corded champion whimpered in her arms, for he did not know but eating might indeed be his fate, and he would have preferred to be coffined anywhere in the world rather than to be coffined inside of that face.

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**Who acts:** corded champion, lip · **What happens:** cord, whimper, not know, eat, be, prefer · **To what, where:** arms, fate, world, face

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corded champion, lip), 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:pg2892:59:29
# text = And the corded champion whimpered in her arms, for he did not know but eating might indeed be his fate, and he would have preferred to be coffined anywhere in the world rather than to be coffined inside of that face.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	corded	cord	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	whimpered	whimper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
27	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	coffined	coffin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
31	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	39	cc	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	coffined	coffin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
40	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
43	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cord** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **whimper** | participle | the corded champion |  |  | champion's arms |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | lip |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | lip *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | might |  | lip's fate |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **prefer** | would · perfect | lip |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **coffin** | to-infinitive · passive | lip *not said here* |  |  | the world |  | anywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **coffin** | to-infinitive · passive | lip *not said here* |  |  | that face |  |  | 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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