---
title: It may be imagined, therefore, with what wrath he saw his wife’s pre… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It may be imagined, therefore, with what wrath he saw his wife’s preparations for her journey, but, although a king can do everything, what can a husband do...? Who acts: king, wife. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/41/32/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/41/) / 32

# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 32

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It may be imagined, therefore, with what wrath he saw his wife’s preparations for her journey, but, although a king can do everything, what can a husband do...?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** king, wife · **What happens:** imagine, see, do, prepare, journey · **To what, where:** Shi, preparations, everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (king, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2892:41:32
# text = It may be imagined, therefore, with what wrath he saw his wife’s preparations for her journey, but, although a king can do everything, what can a husband do...?
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det	_	_
10	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
28	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	34	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	do	do	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | may · passive |  | Shi |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | king | king's wife's preparations |  |  |  | with what wrath; for wife's journey | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | can | a king | everything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 4 | **do** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **prepare** |  | king's wife |  |  |  |  | for wife's journey | nom preparation «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
| 6 | **journey** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/41/31/)
- next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/41/33/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/41/)