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title: He told them that the hound was the Queen of Creatures, the Pulse of… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He told them that the hound was the Queen of Creatures, the Pulse of his Heart, and the Apple of his Eye, and he warned them that the person who as much as looked sideways on her, or knocked one shiver out of her, would answer for the deed with pains and indignities. Who acts: dog, hound. A sentence
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 42

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He told them that the hound was the Queen of Creatures, the Pulse of his Heart, and the Apple of his Eye, and he warned them that the person who as much as looked sideways on her, or knocked one shiver out of her, would answer for the deed with pains and indignities.

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**Who acts:** dog, hound · **What happens:** tell, be, warn, look, knock, answer · **To what, where:** retainers, Queen, one shiver, Heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, hound), 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:pg2892:31:42
# text = He told them that the hound was the Queen of Creatures, the Pulse of his Heart, and the Apple of his Eye, and he warned them that the person who as much as looked sideways on her, or knocked one shiver out of her, would answer for the deed with pains and indignities.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Creatures	Creature	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Pulse	pulse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	Heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Apple	Apple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	Eye	Eye	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	ccomp	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	_
38	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
44	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	shiver	shiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	out	out	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	indignities	indignity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | dog |  | retainers *= retainer* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the hound | the Queen and the Apple of dog's Eye |  |  |  | of Creatures | tree rules |
| 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | dog |  | retainers *= retainer* |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 4 | **look** | participle | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on person; sideways *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on she=Theme |
| 5 | **knock** | past |  | one shiver |  |  |  | out person | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shiver=Theme out she=Destination |
| 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | would |  |  |  |  |  | for the deed; with pains and indignities | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **pulse** |  |  | dog's Heart |  |  |  |  | nom pulse «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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