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title: And the palaces themselves, mellow with red oak, polished within and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 17

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And the palaces themselves, mellow with red oak, polished within and without by the wear and the care of a thousand years, and carved with the patient skill of unending generations of the most famous artists of the most artistic country of the western world, would have given him much to marvel at also.

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**Who acts:** palaces, thousand years · **What happens:** mellow, polish, carve, give, marvel, care · **To what, where:** red oak, arrival

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palaces, thousand years), 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:pg2892:24:17
# text = And the palaces themselves, mellow with red oak, polished within and without by the wear and the care of a thousand years, and carved with the patient skill of unending generations of the most famous artists of the most artistic country of the western world, would have given him much to marvel at also.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	mellow	mellow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wear	wear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	unending	unending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	38	advmod	_	_
38	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	43	advmod	_	_
43	artistic	artistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	aux	_	_
52	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	iobj	_	_
54	much	much	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	marvel	marvel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	advcl	_	_
57	at	at	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	also	also	ADV	RB	_	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mellow** | present | the palaces  roofs |  |  |  |  | with red oak | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with oak=Instrument |
| 2 | **polish** | participle |  | red oak *not said here* |  |  |  | within the wear and the care of thousand years | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the patient skill of unending generations of the famous artists of the artistic country of the western world | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | would · perfect |  |  | arrival |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **marvel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **care** |  | thousand years |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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