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title: “I stood a while stamping upon a rock, with my bristling head swung… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I stood a while stamping upon a rock, with my bristling head swung high, breathing through wide nostrils all the savour of the world. Who acts: I, while. 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 3

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“I stood a while stamping upon a rock, with my bristling head swung high, breathing through wide nostrils all the savour of the world.

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**Who acts:** I, while · **What happens:** stand, stamp, bristle, swing, breathe, savour · **To what, where:** rock, bristling head, savour, wide nostrils, world

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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, while), 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:pg2892:7:3
# text = “I stood a while stamping upon a rock, with my bristling head swung high, breathing through wide nostrils all the savour of the world.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	stamping	stamp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bristling	bristle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	swung	swing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	savour	savour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  | while | with my bristling head | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stamp** *in a quote* | gerund | a while *not said here* |  |  | a rock |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon rock=Destination |
| 3 | **bristle** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **swing** *in a quote* | participle |  | my bristling head *not said here* |  |  |  | high *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **breathe** *in a quote* | gerund | I *not said here* | all savour of the world |  | wide nostrils |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent savour=Theme |
| 6 | **savour** *in a quote* |  |  | the world |  |  |  |  | nom savour «cognition 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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