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title: Creatures that one could see through and walk through. — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Creatures that one could see through and walk through. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 22

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Creatures that one could see through and walk through.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** see through, walk through · **To what, where:** Creatures

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg2892:5:22
# text = Creatures that one could see through and walk through.
1	Creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
3	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	through	through	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	through	through	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see through** | could | one | Creatures |  |  |  | through *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **walk through** | infinitive | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn rehearse-26.8 «NP V S\_ING»: 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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