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title: She sat then, biting on her lip with her white small teeth and stari… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She sat then, biting on her lip with her white small teeth and staring angrily at Art. Who acts: game. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 27

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She sat then, biting on her lip with her white small teeth and staring angrily at Art.

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**Who acts:** game · **What happens:** sit, bite, stare · **To what, where:** lip

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game), 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:pg2892:69:27
# text = She sat then, biting on her lip with her white small teeth and staring angrily at Art.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	biting	bite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	on	on	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	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
16	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | game |  |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bite** | gerund | game *not said here* |  |  | game's lip |  | with game's white small teeth | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with tooth=Instrument |
| 3 | **stare** | gerund | game *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Art; angrily *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at art=Theme |

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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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