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title: And when he had said that, all the people present touched his cheek… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he had said that, all the people present touched his cheek with their lips, and the love and peace of Ireland entered into his soul, so that he was tranquil and proud and happy. Who acts: Segda, people, love. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII, with its depende
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 20

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And when he had said that, all the people present touched his cheek with their lips, and the love and peace of Ireland entered into his soul, so that he was tranquil and proud and happy.

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**Who acts:** Segda, people, love · **What happens:** say, present, touch, enter, be, pacify · **To what, where:** cheek, soul, Ireland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Segda, people, love), 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:pg2892:68:20
# text = And when he had said that, all the people present touched his cheek with their lips, and the love and peace of Ireland entered into his soul, so that he was tranquil and proud and happy.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	present	present	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
12	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	35	mark	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	tranquil	tranquil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	parataxis	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Segda |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **present** | present | all people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **touch** | past | all people *not said here* | Segda's cheek |  |  |  | with people's lips | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cheek=Experiencer with lip=Instrument |
| 4 | **enter** | past | the love and peace of Ireland |  |  | Segda's soul |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into soul=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | Segda |  |  |  |  | tranquil *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | Segda *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | Segda *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **pacify** |  |  | Ireland |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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