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title: “You have eaten one,” cried the blithe poet, “and if you make such a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “You have eaten one,” cried the blithe poet, “and if you make such a promise it will be because you know.” Who acts: You, blithe poet, promise. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 79

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“You have eaten one,” cried the blithe poet, “and if you make such a promise it will be because you know.”

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**Who acts:** You, blithe poet, promise · **What happens:** eat, cry, make, be · **To what, where:** one, promise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, blithe poet, promise), 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:pg2892:23:79
# text = “You have eaten one,” cried the blithe poet, “and if you make such a promise it will be because you know.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	blithe	blithe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You | one |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the blithe poet |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | such promise |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | promise |  |  |  |  | know *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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