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title: Nor is there any reason to complain or to be astonished at these thi… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor is there any reason to complain or to be astonished at these things, for it is a mutual world we llve in, a give-and-take world, and there is no great harm in it. Who acts: Nor, Finn, we, give. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 43

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Nor is there any reason to complain or to be astonished at these things, for it is a mutual world we llve in, a give-and-take world, and there is no great harm in it.

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**Who acts:** Nor, Finn, we, give, great harm · **What happens:** be, complain, astonish, llve, take · **To what, where:** reason, things, mutual world, world

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, Finn, we, give), 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:pg2892:61:43
# text = Nor is there any reason to complain or to be astonished at these things, for it is a mutual world we llve in, a give-and-take world, and there is no great harm in it.
1	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	complain	complain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	astonished	astonish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	mutual	mutual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	llve	llve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	give	give	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	36	expl	_	_
36	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
37	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
38	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nor | any reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **complain** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **astonish** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | this things |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **is** | present | Finn |  |  |  |  | for a mutual world | tree rules |
| 5 | **llve** | present | we | a mutual world *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | infinitive | a give *not said here* | world |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme |
| 7 | **be** | present | no great harm in Finn |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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