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title: He would see all that was to be seen, and he would see all that is p… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He would see all that was to be seen, and he would see all that is passed by the eye that is half blind from use and wont. Who acts: hare, eye. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 9

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He would see all that was to be seen, and he would see all that is passed by the eye that is half blind from use and wont.

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**Who acts:** hare, eye · **What happens:** see, pass, be · **To what, where:** all, use

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, eye), 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:pg2892:490`): 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:pg2892:21:9
# text = He would see all that was to be seen, and he would see all that is passed by the eye that is half blind from use and wont.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:agent	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	half	half	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	wont	wont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | would | hare | all |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | would | hare | all |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pass** | present · passive | the eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is** | present | the eye |  |  | use and wont |  | blind, half *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:** 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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