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title: The stag has legs to be tucked away for sleep, and untucked for move… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The stag has legs to be tucked away for sleep, and untucked for movement; and the bird has wings that must be folded and pecked and cared for. Who acts: stag, legs, bird. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 23

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The stag has legs to be tucked away for sleep, and untucked for movement; and the bird has wings that must be folded and pecked and cared for.

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**Who acts:** stag, legs, bird · **What happens:** have, tuck away, untuck, fold, peck, care · **To what, where:** legs, wings

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, legs, bird), 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:pg2892:9:23
# text = The stag has legs to be tucked away for sleep, and untucked for movement; and the bird has wings that must be folded and pecked and cared for.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	untucked	untuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	pecked	peck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	cared	care	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the stag | legs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tuck away** | to-infinitive · passive | legs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for sleep; away *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination» |
| 3 | **untuck** | participle | legs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for movement | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | the bird | wings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 5 | **fold** | must · passive |  | wings |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **peck** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **care** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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