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title: “Next week,” they said at last, “you may climb this one,” and “next… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Next week,” they said at last, “you may climb this one,” and “next week” lived at the end of the world! Who acts: women, you, next week. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 12

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“Next week,” they said at last, “you may climb this one,” and “next week” lived at the end of the world!

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**Who acts:** women, you, next week · **What happens:** say, climb, live · **To what, where:** last, one, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, you, next week), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2892:305`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:15:12
# text = “Next week,” they said at last, “you may climb this one,” and “next week” lived at the end of the world!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | women *= woman* |  |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **climb** *in a quote* | may | you | this one |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location one=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | past | next week |  |  |  | at the end of the world |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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