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title: Goll’s merry mind would help him to forget, but even his heart would… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Goll’s merry mind would help him to forget, but even his heart would be wrung by a memory that he would not dare to face. Who acts: merry mind, Goll, memory, mind. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 17

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Goll’s merry mind would help him to forget, but even his heart would be wrung by a memory that he would not dare to face.

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**Who acts:** merry mind, Goll, memory, mind · **What happens:** help, forget, wring, not dare, mind · **To what, where:** Goll, heart, memory

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merry mind, Goll, memory, mind), 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:pg2892:25:17
# text = Goll’s merry mind would help him to forget, but even his heart would be wrung by a memory that he would not dare to face.
1	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	wrung	wring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	TO	_	27	case	_	_
27	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | would | Goll's merry mind | Goll |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | to-infinitive | Goll *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wring** | would · passive | a memory | mind's heart |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **dare** | would | mind | a memory *not said here* |  |  |  | to face | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Recipient |
| 5 | **mind** |  | Goll |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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