--- title: “One indeed, my thick-witted, thin-livered Cairell, and I undertake… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “One indeed, my thick-witted, thin-livered Cairell, and I undertake to prove on your hide that what my brother said was true and that what your brother said was false.” Who acts: Cairell, brother. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/46/50/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/46/) / 50 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 50 “One indeed, my thick-witted, thin-livered Cairell, and I undertake to prove on your hide that what my brother said was true and that what your brother said was false.” **Who acts:** Cairell, brother · **What happens:** liver, undertake, prove, say, be · **To what, where:** Cairell, hide · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Cairell, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:46:50 # text = “One indeed, my thick-witted, thin-livered Cairell, and I undertake to prove on your hide that what my brother said was true and that what your brother said was false.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 witted witted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 livered liver VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 13 Cairell Cairell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 undertake undertake VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 hide hide NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 24 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 obj _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 csubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 37 nsubj _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **liver** *in a quote* | participle | | Cairell | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **undertake** *in a quote* | present | Cairell | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **prove** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Cairell *not said here* | | | your hide | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | my brother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Cairell *not said here* | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | your brother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | false *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/46/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/46/51/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/46/)