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title: A proud head hung to the turf then, and the tears of memory rolled f… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A proud head hung to the turf then, and the tears of memory rolled from a large, bright eye. Who acts: proud head, tears. 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 28

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A proud head hung to the turf then, and the tears of memory rolled from a large, bright eye.

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**Who acts:** proud head, tears · **What happens:** hang, roll · **To what, where:** large bright eye

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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 (proud head, tears), 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:pg2892:7:28
# text = A proud head hung to the turf then, and the tears of memory rolled from a large, bright eye.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	turf	turf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | participle | a proud head |  |  |  | then | to the turf | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **roll** | participle | the tears of memory |  |  | a large bright eye |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from eye=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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