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title: “Who should I halt for?” the lady demanded, halting all the same, as… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Who should I halt for?” the lady demanded, halting all the same, as is the manner of women, who rebel against command and yet receive it. Who acts: lady, women. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 43

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“Who should I halt for?” the lady demanded, halting all the same, as is the manner of women, who rebel against command and yet receive it.

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**Who acts:** lady, women · **What happens:** halt, demand, be, rebel, receive · **To what, where:** same, command · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, women), 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:pg2892:40:43
# text = “Who should I halt for?” the lady demanded, halting all the same, as is the manner of women, who rebel against command and yet receive it.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	halt	halt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	halting	halt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	rebel	rebel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **halt** *in a quote* | should |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | the lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **halt** | gerund | the lady *not said here* | all same |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector same=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as the manner; of women | tree rules |
| 5 | **rebel** | present | women |  |  |  |  | against command | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against command=Maleficiary |
| 6 | **receive** | infinitive | women *not said here* | command |  |  | yet |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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