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title: That, by itself, is wonderful, for there are few people who remember… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That, by itself, is wonderful, for there are few people who remember that they have been to Faery or aught of all that happened to them in that state. Who acts: That, few people, people. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 3

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That, by itself, is wonderful, for there are few people who remember that they have been to Faery or aught of all that happened to them in that state.

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**Who acts:** That, few people, people · **What happens:** be, remember, happen · **To what, where:** people, state · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (That, few people, people), 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:pg2892:48:3
# text = That, by itself, is wonderful, for there are few people who remember that they have been to Faery or aught of all that happened to them in that state.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Faery	faery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | few people |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **remember** | present | few people |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present · perfect | people |  |  |  |  | faery *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **happen** | past |  |  | people | that state |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in state=Location |

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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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