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title: “You couldn’t go to sleep close to that stench; nobody could,” Fiacu… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “You couldn’t go to sleep close to that stench; nobody could,” Fiacuil replied decidedly. Who acts: You, Fiacuil. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 49

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“You couldn’t go to sleep close to that stench; nobody could,” Fiacuil replied decidedly.

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**Who acts:** You, Fiacuil · **What happens:** not go, sleep, reply · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Fiacuil), 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:pg2892:731`): 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:pg2892:26:49
# text = “You couldn’t go to sleep close to that stench; nobody could,” Fiacuil replied decidedly.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	stench	stench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
17	Fiacuil	Fiacuil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	decidedly	decidedly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | could | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Fiacuil |  |  |  |  | decidedly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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