--- title: There is no wonder in that, for it is the pup’s mother teaches it to… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There is no wonder in that, for it is the pup’s mother teaches it to fight, and women know that fighting is a necessary art although men pretend there are others that are better. Who acts: wonder, mother, women, fighting. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/14/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/14/) / 2 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 2 There is no wonder in that, for it is the pup’s mother teaches it to fight, and women know that fighting is a necessary art although men pretend there are others that are better. **Who acts:** wonder, mother, women, fighting, men, others · **What happens:** be, teach, fight, know, pretend · **To what, where:** wonder, necessary art · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (wonder, mother, women, fighting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:14:2 # text = There is no wonder in that, for it is the pup’s mother teaches it to fight, and women know that fighting is a necessary art although men pretend there are others that are better. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 wonder wonder NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pup pup NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’s 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 fighting fighting NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ _ 29 although although SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 pretend pretend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 32 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 33 expl _ _ 33 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 34 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | no wonder in that | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | wonder | | | | | for the pup's mother | tree rules | | 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | the pup's mother | | wonder | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **fight** | to-infinitive | the pup's mother *not said here* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **know** | present | women | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** | present | fighting | a necessary art | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **pretend** | present | men | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **does** | present | others | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **is** | present | that | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/14/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/14/3/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/14/)