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title: Her lips were thin and beautifully curved: red lips in truth, red as… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Her lips were thin and beautifully curved: red lips in truth, red as winter berries and tempting as the fruits of summer. Who acts: lips. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 27

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Her lips were thin and beautifully curved: red lips in truth, red as winter berries and tempting as the fruits of summer.

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**Who acts:** lips · **What happens:** be, curve

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lips), 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:pg2892:62:27
# text = Her lips were thin and beautifully curved: red lips in truth, red as winter berries and tempting as the fruits of summer.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	curved	curve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	tempting	tempting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	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 | **is** | past | One's lips |  |  |  |  | red lips in truth *obl*; thin *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **curve** | participle | One's lips *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |

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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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