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title: He was fond of them and proud of them, but if one were to search the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was fond of them and proud of them, but if one were to search the Shi’s of Ireland or the land of Ireland, the equal of these four would not be found for ugliness and bad humour and twisted temperaments. Who acts: Conaran, one. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 5

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He was fond of them and proud of them, but if one were to search the Shi’s of Ireland or the land of Ireland, the equal of these four would not be found for ugliness and bad humour and twisted temperaments.

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**Who acts:** Conaran, one · **What happens:** be, search, not find · **To what, where:** Shi, these

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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 (Conaran, 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:pg2892:57:5
# text = He was fond of them and proud of them, but if one were to search the Shi’s of Ireland or the land of Ireland, the equal of these four would not be found for ugliness and bad humour and twisted temperaments.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
31	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	humour	humour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	temperaments	temperament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Conaran |  |  |  |  | of daughters *= daughter*; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Conaran *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of daughters *= daughter* | tree rules |
| 3 | **search** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | one | the Shi of Ireland or the land of Ireland |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent shi=Location |
| 4 | **be** |  | Conaran *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **find** | would · passive |  | these |  |  |  | for ugliness and bad humour and twisted temperaments | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for ugliness=Beneficiary |

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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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