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title: His chest was pulled inwards, and his head was stuck outwards and hu… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His chest was pulled inwards, and his head was stuck outwards and hung down in the place where his chest should have been, and his arms were crooked in front of him with the hands turned wrongly, so that one palm was shown to the east of the world and the other one was turned to the west. Who acts: 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 10

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His chest was pulled inwards, and his head was stuck outwards and hung down in the place where his chest should have been, and his arms were crooked in front of him with the hands turned wrongly, so that one palm was shown to the east of the world and the other one was turned to the west.

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**Who acts:** head, hands · **What happens:** pull, be, hang down, crook, turn, show · **To what, where:** chest, place, arms, one palm, east, other one

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, hands), 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:pg2892:89:10
# text = His chest was pulled inwards, and his head was stuck outwards and hung down in the place where his chest should have been, and his arms were crooked in front of him with the hands turned wrongly, so that one palm was shown to the east of the world and the other one was turned to the west.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	inwards	inwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
12	outwards	outwards	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	crooked	crook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	_
35	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
39	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	46	mark	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	fixed	_	_
43	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux:pass	_	_
58	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	conj	_	_
59	to	to	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | past · passive |  | pleasure's chest |  |  |  | inwards *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | pleasure's head |  |  |  |  | outwards, stuck *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hang down** | past |  |  |  | the place |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 4 | **crook** | past · passive |  | pleasure's arms |  |  |  | in front of pleasure | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in front=Topic |
| 5 | **turn** | past | the hands |  |  |  |  | wrongly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **show** | past · passive |  | one palm | the east of the world |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to east=Recipient |
| 7 | **turn** | past · passive |  | the other one |  | the west |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to west=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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