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title: There would be much to see and remember and compare, and there would… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There would be much to see and remember and compare, and there would be, always, his two guardians. Who acts: much. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 37

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There would be much to see and remember and compare, and there would be, always, his two guardians.

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**Who acts:** much · **What happens:** be, see, remember, compare · **To what, where:** two guardians

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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 (much), 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:pg2892:14:37
# text = There would be much to see and remember and compare, and there would be, always, his two guardians.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	guardians	guardian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **compare** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | infinitive | much | blackbird's two guardians |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |

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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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