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title: “Don’t think out loud, dear heart, for you and I are at peace by law.” — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Don’t think out loud, dear heart, for you and I are at peace by law.” Who acts: you, Cona’n. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 14

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“Don’t think out loud, dear heart, for you and I are at peace by law.”

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**Who acts:** you, Cona’n · **What happens:** not think out, be · **To what, where:** dear heart, peace

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Cona’n), 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:pg2892:45:14
# text = “Don’t think out loud, dear heart, for you and I are at peace by law.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	ccomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think out** *speech: other* *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | dear heart |  |  |  | loud, out *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Cona’n *= cona'n* |  |  | peace |  | by law | 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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