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title: One may wonder how, having attained to that sphere, she could have c… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One may wonder how, having attained to that sphere, she could have carried with her so strong a memory of the earth. Who acts: One, mind. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 15

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One may wonder how, having attained to that sphere, she could have carried with her so strong a memory of the earth.

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**Who acts:** One, mind · **What happens:** wonder, attain, carry · **To what, where:** strong memory · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (One, 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:pg2892:62:15
# text = One may wonder how, having attained to that sphere, she could have carried with her so strong a memory of the earth.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux	_	_
7	attained	attain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	sphere	sphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | may | One |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **attain** | gerund · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | to that sphere | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **carry** | could · perfect | mind | a strong memory of the earth |  |  |  | with Becuma | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=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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