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title: It may be dissolution by fire, and that can note a destruction too f… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It may be dissolution by fire, and that can note a destruction too final for the mind to contemplate; or it may be banishment from that sphere to a lower and worse one. Who acts: retribution, that, mind. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 13

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It may be dissolution by fire, and that can note a destruction too final for the mind to contemplate; or it may be banishment from that sphere to a lower and worse one.

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**Who acts:** retribution, that, mind · **What happens:** be, note, contemplate · **To what, where:** dissolution, destruction, banishment, lower one, sphere

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (retribution, that, mind), 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:pg2892:62:13
# text = It may be dissolution by fire, and that can note a destruction too final for the mind to contemplate; or it may be banishment from that sphere to a lower and worse one.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	dissolution	dissolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	note	note	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	contemplate	contemplate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	banishment	banishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	sphere	sphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	conj	_	_
35	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | may | retribution | dissolution or banishment |  |  |  | by fire | tree rules |
| 2 | **note** | can | that | a destruction |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent destruction=Topic |
| 3 | **contemplate** | to-infinitive | the mind |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | may | retribution | banishment | a lower one | that sphere |  |  | tree rules |

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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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