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title: During six days of the week all that could happen might happen, so f… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: During six days of the week all that could happen might happen, so far as Dermod was concerned, but on the seventh day nothing should happen at all if the High King could restrain it. Who acts: six days, Dermod, nothing, High King. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, wit
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 27

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During six days of the week all that could happen might happen, so far as Dermod was concerned, but on the seventh day nothing should happen at all if the High King could restrain it.

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**Who acts:** six days, Dermod, nothing, High King · **What happens:** happen, be, restrain · **To what, where:** all, commission

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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 (six days, Dermod, nothing, High King), 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:pg2892:41:27
# text = During six days of the week all that could happen might happen, so far as Dermod was concerned, but on the seventh day nothing should happen at all if the High King could restrain it.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	conj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	Dermod	Dermod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	28	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	obl	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	restrain	restrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | could | six days of the week |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** | might | six days of the week |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Dermod |  |  |  |  | concerned *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **happen** | should | nothing |  |  | all | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
| 5 | **restrain** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | the High King | commission |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Eventuality |

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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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