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title: “Are you sure?” said Fionn in a voice that rumbled and vibrated like… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Are you sure?” said Fionn in a voice that rumbled and vibrated like thunder. Who acts: you, Fionn, voice. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 41

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“Are you sure?” said Fionn in a voice that rumbled and vibrated like thunder.

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**Who acts:** you, Fionn, voice · **What happens:** be, say, rumble, vibrate · **To what, where:** voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Fionn, voice), 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:pg2892:54:41
# text = “Are you sure?” said Fionn in a voice that rumbled and vibrated like thunder.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rumbled	rumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	vibrated	vibrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | you |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Fionn |  |  | a voice |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner |
| 3 | **rumble** | past | a voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **vibrate** | participle | a voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like thunder | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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