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title: “Indeed,” he said, and the fingers of his right hand strangled and d… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Indeed,” he said, and the fingers of his right hand strangled and did to death the fingers of his left hand, “indeed, we have transgressed by order.” Who acts: king, fingers, order. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 4

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“Indeed,” he said, and the fingers of his right hand strangled and did to death the fingers of his left hand, “indeed, we have transgressed by order.”

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**Who acts:** king, fingers, order · **What happens:** say, strangle, do, transgress · **To what, where:** we · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, fingers, order), 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:pg2892:44:4
# text = “Indeed,” he said, and the fingers of his right hand strangled and did to death the fingers of his left hand, “indeed, we have transgressed by order.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	strangled	strangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	transgressed	transgress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **strangle** | participle | the fingers of king's right hand |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | past | the fingers of king's right hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to death and the fingers of king's left hand | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **transgress** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | order | we |  |  |  | indeed *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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