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title: “That is too long a story and it is too intricate and pressing to be… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “That is too long a story and it is too intricate and pressing to be told, also I have no time to spare now.” Who acts: That, story, Fionn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 11

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“That is too long a story and it is too intricate and pressing to be told, also I have no time to spare now.”

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**Who acts:** That, story, Fionn · **What happens:** be, press, tell, have, spare · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (That, story, Fionn), 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:pg2892:49:11
# text = “That is too long a story and it is too intricate and pressing to be told, also I have no time to spare now.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	intricate	intricate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | story |  |  |  |  | intricate *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **press** *in a quote* | gerund | story *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | story *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Fionn |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **spare** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Fionn *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |

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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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