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title: It is certain that she was not a fit person to exist in the Many-Col… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is certain that she was not a fit person to exist in the Many-Coloured Land, and it is to be feared that she was organised too grossly even for life in the Shi’. Who acts: It, One. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 16

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It is certain that she was not a fit person to exist in the Many-Coloured Land, and it is to be feared that she was organised too grossly even for life in the Shi’.

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**Who acts:** It, One · **What happens:** be, not be, exist, fear · **To what, where:** fit person, Coloured Land, memory

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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 (It, 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:pg2892:62:16
# text = It is certain that she was not a fit person to exist in the Many-Coloured Land, and it is to be feared that she was organised too grossly even for life in the Shi’.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	organised	organised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
30	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	grossly	grossly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | One | a fit person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **exist** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the Coloured Land |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 4 | **fear** | present · passive |  | memory |  |  |  | for life in the Shi; grossly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus for life=Attribute |
| 5 | **is** | past | One |  |  |  |  | organised *property* | 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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