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title: “‘Be at ease, O King,’ said the fisherman. — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘Be at ease, O King,’ said the fisherman. Who acts: ease. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 16

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“‘Be at ease, O King,’ said the fisherman.

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**Who acts:** ease · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** ease, fisherman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ease), 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:pg2892:12:16
# text = “‘Be at ease, O King,’ said the fisherman.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | ease |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | ease | the fisherman |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fisherman=Topic |

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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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