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title: In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Faery, and in the beating… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Faery, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years. Who acts: we. 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 4

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In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Faery, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** not go, become, live, beat · **To what, where:** Faery, truth, beating, pulse

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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 (we), 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:pg2892:48:4
# text = In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Faery, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Faery	Faery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	Faery	faery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pulse	pulse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | present · do-support | we |  | Faery | truth |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to faery=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **become** | present | we |  |  |  |  | faery *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | may | we |  |  | the beating of a pulse | year |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in beating=Location |
| 4 | **beat** |  |  | a pulse |  |  |  |  | nom beating «act transitive»: of=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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