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title: And that thought was delight and anguish to him: delight because of… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And that thought was delight and anguish to him: delight because of such sweet prospect, anguish because it was not yet realised, and might not be. Who acts: that, delight. 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 11

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And that thought was delight and anguish to him: delight because of such sweet prospect, anguish because it was not yet realised, and might not be.

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**Who acts:** that, delight · **What happens:** think, be, anguish, not realise, not be · **To what, where:** delight, Chief · **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, delight), 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:pg2892:34:11
# text = And that thought was delight and anguish to him: delight because of such sweet prospect, anguish because it was not yet realised, and might not be.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	anguish	anguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
12	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	anguish	anguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	realised	realise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | delight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **anguish** | infinitive | that *not said here* |  | Chief |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **anguish** | infinitive | delight because such sweet prospect |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **realise** | past · passive |  | delight |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **be** | might | delight because such sweet prospect *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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