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title: She was dressed in a red rag that was really a hole with a fringe on… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She was dressed in a red rag that was really a hole with a fringe on it, and she was singing “Oh, hush thee, my one love” to a cat that was yelping on her shoulder. Who acts: red rag, Hag, cat, my. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIX, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 11

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She was dressed in a red rag that was really a hole with a fringe on it, and she was singing “Oh, hush thee, my one love” to a cat that was yelping on her shoulder.

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**Who acts:** red rag, Hag, cat, my · **What happens:** dress, be, sing, hush, yelp, love · **To what, where:** Hag, red rag, hole, one love, cat, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red rag, Hag, cat, my), 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:pg2892:90:11
# text = She was dressed in a red rag that was really a hole with a fringe on it, and she was singing “Oh, hush thee, my one love” to a cat that was yelping on her shoulder.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rag	rag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	really	really	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fringe	fringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	hush	hush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	yelping	yelp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past · passive |  | Hag |  | a red rag |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a red rag | a hole |  |  |  | with a fringe on fringe | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | Hag | my one love | a cat |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cat=Recipient |
| 4 | **hush** *in a quote* | infinitive | Hag *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 5 | **yelp** | past · progressive | a cat |  |  | Hag's shoulder |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **love** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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