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title: Folk of both sorts with towers swaying on their heads, and they drip… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Folk of both sorts with towers swaying on their heads, and they dripping with honey. Who acts: towers, heads. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 13

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Folk of both sorts with towers swaying on their heads, and they dripping with honey.

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**Who acts:** towers, heads · **What happens:** sway, drip · **To what, where:** heads

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (towers, heads), 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:pg2892:85:13
# text = Folk of both sorts with towers swaying on their heads, and they dripping with honey.
1	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	swaying	sway	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dripping	drip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sway** | gerund | towers *not said here* |  |  | towers's heads |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location |
| 2 | **drip** | gerund | heads *= head* |  |  |  |  | with honey | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with honey=Theme |

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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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