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title: For if Crimthann had been beautiful, this youth was ten times more b… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For if Crimthann had been beautiful, this youth was ten times more beautiful. Who acts: Crimthann, youth. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 16

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For if Crimthann had been beautiful, this youth was ten times more beautiful.

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**Who acts:** Crimthann, youth · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crimthann, youth), 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:pg2892:42:16
# text = For if Crimthann had been beautiful, this youth was ten times more beautiful.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	Crimthann	Crimthann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Crimthann |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | this youth |  |  |  | time | beautiful *property* | tree rules |

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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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