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title: The lumbering bear swung his head of hesitations and thought again;… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The lumbering bear swung his head of hesitations and thought again; he trotted his small red eye away with him to a near-by brake. Who acts: lumbering bear, bear. 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 24

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The lumbering bear swung his head of hesitations and thought again; he trotted his small red eye away with him to a near-by brake.

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**Who acts:** lumbering bear, bear · **What happens:** swing, think, trot · **To what, where:** head, small red eye, near brake

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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 (lumbering bear, bear), 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:pg2892:7:24
# text = The lumbering bear swung his head of hesitations and thought again; he trotted his small red eye away with him to a near-by brake.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lumbering	lumbering	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hesitations	hesitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	trotted	trot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	brake	brake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** | past | the lumbering bear | bear's head of hesitations |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the lumbering bear *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **trot** | past | bear | bear's small red eye |  | a near brake |  | with wolf; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to brake=Trajectory |

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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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