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title: There remained a laughing and crying and loving servant who wanted t… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There remained a laughing and crying and loving servant who wanted to tie himself into knots if that would please the son of his great captain. Who acts: loving servant, that. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 23

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There remained a laughing and crying and loving servant who wanted to tie himself into knots if that would please the son of his great captain.

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**Who acts:** loving servant, that · **What happens:** remain, laugh, cry, want, tie, please · **To what, where:** loving servant, robber, son

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loving servant, that), 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:pg2892:19:23
# text = There remained a laughing and crying and loving servant who wanted to tie himself into knots if that would please the son of his great captain.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	knots	knot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past |  | a loving servant |  | there |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme servant=Attribute |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **want** | past | a loving servant |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **tie** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a loving servant *not said here* | robber |  |  |  | into knots | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into knot=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **please** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | that | the son of robber's great captain |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus son=Experiencer |

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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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