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title: “Thus I do not really require to know this lady’s name, nor do I car… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Thus I do not really require to know this lady’s name, nor do I care from what direction she comes.” Who acts: heart, lady. 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 61

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“Thus I do not really require to know this lady’s name, nor do I care from what direction she comes.”

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**Who acts:** heart, lady · **What happens:** not require, know, care, come, name · **To what, where:** name, direction

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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 (heart, lady), 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:pg2892:40:61
# text = “Thus I do not really require to know this lady’s name, nor do I care from what direction she comes.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	nsubj	_	_
21	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **require** *in a quote* | present · do-support | My heart *= heart* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | My heart *= heart* *not said here* | this lady's name |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 3 | **care** *in a quote* | present · do-support | My heart *= heart* |  |  | direction |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present | lady | direction *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=Theme |
| 5 | **name** *in a quote* |  | this lady |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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