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title: There are those whose happiness lies in ambition and station, and to… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There are those whose happiness lies in ambition and station, and to such a one the fact of being queen to the High King of Ireland is a satisfaction at which desire is sated. Who acts: happiness, one. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 4

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There are those whose happiness lies in ambition and station, and to such a one the fact of being queen to the High King of Ireland is a satisfaction at which desire is sated.

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**Who acts:** happiness, one · **What happens:** be, lie, sate · **To what, where:** ambition, satisfaction, desire

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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 (happiness, one), 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:pg2892:41:4
# text = There are those whose happiness lies in ambition and station, and to such a one the fact of being queen to the High King of Ireland is a satisfaction at which desire is sated.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ambition	ambition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nsubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
21	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
33	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	sated	sate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | present | that happiness |  |  | ambition and station |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ambition=Location |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of queen; to the High King of Ireland | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | such one | a satisfaction |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sate** | present · passive |  | desire |  | a satisfaction |  |  | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: subject=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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