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title: And, with help, she laid beside him the load of three men of doubly… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And, with help, she laid beside him the load of three men of doubly refined gold. Who acts: fort. 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 48

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And, with help, she laid beside him the load of three men of doubly refined gold.

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**Who acts:** fort · **What happens:** lay, refine · **To what, where:** load

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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 (fort), 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:pg2892:45:48
# text = And, with help, she laid beside him the load of three men of doubly refined gold.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	doubly	doubly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	refined	refine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | fort | the load of three men of refined gold |  |  |  | with help; beside Denmark | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent load=Theme beside he=Destination |
| 2 | **refine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | doubly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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