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title: But women have strange loves, strange fears, and these are so bound… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But women have strange loves, strange fears, and these are so bound up with one another that the thing which is presented to us is not often the thing that is to be seen. Who acts: women, thing. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 12

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But women have strange loves, strange fears, and these are so bound up with one another that the thing which is presented to us is not often the thing that is to be seen.

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**Who acts:** women, thing · **What happens:** have, love, bind up, present, not be, see · **To what, where:** strange fears, these, thing, us

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, thing), 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:pg2892:14:12
# text = But women have strange loves, strange fears, and these are so bound up with one another that the thing which is presented to us is not often the thing that is to be seen.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	fixed	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
29	often	often	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	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 | women | strange fears |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | present | women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **bind up** | present · passive |  | these |  |  |  | with one | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with one=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **present** | present · passive |  | the thing | us |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to we=Recipient |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | the thing | the thing |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | present · passive |  | the thing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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