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title: But when we return the memory is quickly clouded, and we seem to hav… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when we return the memory is quickly clouded, and we seem to have had a dream or seen a vision, although we have verily been in Faery. 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 5

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But when we return the memory is quickly clouded, and we seem to have had a dream or seen a vision, although we have verily been in Faery.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** return, cloud, seem, have, see, be · **To what, where:** memory, dream, vision, Faery

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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:pg2892:48:5
# text = But when we return the memory is quickly clouded, and we seem to have had a dream or seen a vision, although we have verily been in Faery.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	clouded	cloud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	xcomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Faery	Faery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | present | we | the memory |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme |
| 2 | **cloud** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 3 | **seem** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive · perfect | we *not said here* | a dream |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient |
| 5 | **see** | participle | we *not said here* | a vision |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vision=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | present · perfect | we |  |  | Faery |  | verily *property* | 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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