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title: Art stepped into his coracle, and then, wringing her hands, she made… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Art stepped into his coracle, and then, wringing her hands, she made yet an attempt to dissuade him from that drear journey. Who acts: Art, Morgan. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 26

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Art stepped into his coracle, and then, wringing her hands, she made yet an attempt to dissuade him from that drear journey.

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**Who acts:** Art, Morgan · **What happens:** step, wring, make, dissuade · **To what, where:** coracle, hands, attempt, Art, drear journey

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Art, Morgan), 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:pg2892:70:26
# text = Art stepped into his coracle, and then, wringing her hands, she made yet an attempt to dissuade him from that drear journey.
1	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	coracle	coracle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wringing	wring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	dissuade	dissuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	drear	drear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | past | Art |  |  | Art's coracle |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into coracle=Destination |
| 2 | **wring** | gerund | Art *not said here* | Morgan's hands |  |  | then |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past | Morgan | a attempt |  |  | yet |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product |
| 4 | **dissuade** | to-infinitive | Morgan *not said here* | a attempt *not said here* | Art | that drear journey |  |  | vn discourage-64.5 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary from journey=Eventuality |

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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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