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title: “I’Il build a house myself,” said the Carl, “and the man who does no… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I’Il build a house myself,” said the Carl, “and the man who does not help in the building can stay outside of the house.” Who acts: I’Il, Carl, man. 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 5

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“I’Il build a house myself,” said the Carl, “and the man who does not help in the building can stay outside of the house.”

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**Who acts:** I’Il, Carl, man · **What happens:** build, say, not help, stay · **To what, where:** house, building · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I’Il, Carl, man), 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:pg2892:51:5
# text = “I’Il build a house myself,” said the Carl, “and the man who does not help in the building can stay outside of the house.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I’Il	I'Il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
26	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** *in a quote* | infinitive | I’Il | a house |  |  |  | myself *obl:unmarked* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Carl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **help** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the man |  |  | the building |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stay** *in a quote* | can | the man |  |  | the house |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside house=Location |

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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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