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title: It was her head that rolled on the ground when the combat was over,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was her head that rolled on the ground when the combat was over, and it was her head that grinned and shrivelled on the vacant spike which she had reserved for Art’s. Who acts: star, head, combat. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 29

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It was her head that rolled on the ground when the combat was over, and it was her head that grinned and shrivelled on the vacant spike which she had reserved for Art’s.

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**Who acts:** star, head, combat · **What happens:** be, roll, grin, shrivell, reserve · **To what, where:** head, ground, vacant spike

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (star, head, combat), 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:pg2892:71:29
# text = It was her head that rolled on the ground when the combat was over, and it was her head that grinned and shrivelled on the vacant spike which she had reserved for Art’s.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	grinned	grin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	vacant	vacant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	spike	spike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	reserved	reserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | star | girl's head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll** | past | girl's head |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | the combat |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | star | girl's head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **grin** | past | girl's head |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **shrivell** | participle | girl's head *not said here* |  |  | the vacant spike |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **reserve** | past · perfect · passive |  | the vacant spike |  |  |  | for Art | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for art=Beneficiary |

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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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