--- title: “I want to make sure that it is whiskers they are wearing.” — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “I want to make sure that it is whiskers they are wearing.” Who acts: Chief, hole, whiskers. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/) / 32 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 32 “I want to make sure that it is whiskers they are wearing.” **Who acts:** Chief, hole, whiskers · **What happens:** want, make, be, wear · **To what, where:** whiskers · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Chief, hole, whiskers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:58:32 # text = “I want to make sure that it is whiskers they are wearing.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 ccomp _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 wearing wear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the Chief *= chief* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **make** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Chief *= chief* *not said here* | | | | | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | hole | whiskers | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wear** *in a quote* | present · progressive | whiskers *= whisker* | whiskers *not said here* | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent whisker=Source | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/33/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/)