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title: “Then,” said the Carl, “we may go off to Slieve Luachra now, and in… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then,” said the Carl, “we may go off to Slieve Luachra now, and in the morning we can start our race there to here.” Who acts: Carl, we, our. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 16

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“Then,” said the Carl, “we may go off to Slieve Luachra now, and in the morning we can start our race there to here.”

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**Who acts:** Carl, we, our · **What happens:** say, go off, start, race · **To what, where:** Slieve, race · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl, we, our), 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:pg2892:50:16
# text = “Then,” said the Carl, “we may go off to Slieve Luachra now, and in the morning we can start our race there to here.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Slieve	Slieve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	Luachra	Luachra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Carl |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go off** *in a quote* | may | we |  | Slieve |  | now |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **start** *in a quote* | can | we | our race |  | there | morning |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |
| 4 | **race** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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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