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title: “That is how long the love of a mortal lasts,” she added, in the voi… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “That is how long the love of a mortal lasts,” she added, in the voice of sad triumph which is proper to sisters. Who acts: That, mortal, sister, sad triumph. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 25

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“That is how long the love of a mortal lasts,” she added, in the voice of sad triumph which is proper to sisters.

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**Who acts:** That, mortal, sister, sad triumph · **What happens:** be, last, add · **To what, where:** love, voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, mortal, sister, sad triumph), 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:pg2892:29:25
# text = “That is how long the love of a mortal lasts,” she added, in the voice of sad triumph which is proper to sisters.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | the love |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **last** *in a quote* | present | a mortal |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | sister |  |  | the voice of sad triumph |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | sad triumph |  |  |  |  | to sisters; proper *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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