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title: You shall whine and squeal at the moon, and shiver in the cold, and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You shall whine and squeal at the moon, and shiver in the cold, and you will never take another girl’s sweetheart again.” Who acts: You. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 21

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You shall whine and squeal at the moon, and shiver in the cold, and you will never take another girl’s sweetheart again.”

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** whine, squeal, not take · **To what, where:** shiver, sweetheart

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg2892:30:21
# text = You shall whine and squeal at the moon, and shiver in the cold, and you will never take another girl’s sweetheart again.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	whine	whine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	squeal	squeal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shiver	shiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whine** | shall | You | shiver in the cold |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **squeal** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the moon | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at moon=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **take** | future | you | another girl's sweetheart |  |  | again |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetheart=Theme |

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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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