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title: Nor was this wonderful, for the lad loved him also, and was as eager… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor was this wonderful, for the lad loved him also, and was as eager and intelligent and modest as becomes a prince. Who acts: Nor, lad. 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 8

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Nor was this wonderful, for the lad loved him also, and was as eager and intelligent and modest as becomes a prince.

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**Who acts:** Nor, lad · **What happens:** be, love, become · **To what, where:** conjecture, prince

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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 (Nor, lad), 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:pg2892:40:8
# text = Nor was this wonderful, for the lad loved him also, and was as eager and intelligent and modest as becomes a prince.
1	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Nor |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | past | the lad | conjecture |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | Nor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | eager *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Nor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | Nor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **become** | present | Nor *not said here* | a prince |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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