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description: For to her mind he was the sunlight in the sun, the brightness in the moonbeam; he was the savour in fruit and the taste in honey; and when she looked from Crimthann to the king she could not but consider that the right man was in the wrong place. Who acts: desire, Crimthann, right man. A sentence o
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 6

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For to her mind he was the sunlight in the sun, the brightness in the moonbeam; he was the savour in fruit and the taste in honey; and when she looked from Crimthann to the king she could not but consider that the right man was in the wrong place.

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**Who acts:** desire, Crimthann, right man · **What happens:** be, look, consider, mind · **To what, where:** sunlight, sun, savour, fruit, wrong place

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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 (desire, Crimthann, right man), 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:pg2892:41:6
# text = For to her mind he was the sunlight in the sun, the brightness in the moonbeam; he was the savour in fruit and the taste in honey; and when she looked from Crimthann to the king she could not but consider that the right man was in the wrong place.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	moonbeam	moonbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	savour	savour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Crimthann	Crimthann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | desire | the sunlight and the brightness in the moonbeam and the savour and the taste in honey |  | the sun |  | for Crimthann's mind | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | desire | the savour and the taste in honey |  | fruit |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past | Crimthann |  |  |  |  | to the king; from Crimthann | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from crimthann=Theme |
| 4 | **consider** | infinitive | Crimthann *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | the right man |  |  | the wrong place |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mind** |  | Crimthann |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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