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title: “With unswerving forehead and steady eye I met all that came. — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “With unswerving forehead and steady eye I met all that came. Who acts: I, that. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 22

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“With unswerving forehead and steady eye I met all that came.

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**Who acts:** I, that · **What happens:** unswerv, meet, come

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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:pg2892:7:22
# text = “With unswerving forehead and steady eye I met all that came.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	unswerving	unswerv	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unswerv** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  | with unswerving forehead and steady eye | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with forehead=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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