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title: A tricky place that would be, with sudden exits and even suddener en… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A tricky place that would be, with sudden exits and even suddener entrances, and with damp, winding, spidery places to hoard treasure in, or to hide oneself in. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 2

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A tricky place that would be, with sudden exits and even suddener entrances, and with damp, winding, spidery places to hoard treasure in, or to hide oneself in.

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**What happens:** wind, hoard, hide in · **To what, where:** spidery places, treasure, oneself

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2892:20:2
# text = A tricky place that would be, with sudden exits and even suddener entrances, and with damp, winding, spidery places to hoard treasure in, or to hide oneself in.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tricky	tricky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	exits	exit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	suddener	suddener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	entrances	entrance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	spidery	spidery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hoard	hoard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	oneself	oneself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wind** | gerund |  | spidery places |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hoard** | to-infinitive |  | treasure |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 3 | **hide in** | to-infinitive |  | oneself |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oneself=Patient |

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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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