--- title: You will cross clay to get into the Shi’; you will cross water to at… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: You will cross clay to get into the Shi’; you will cross water to attain the Many-Coloured Land; fire must be passed ere the Land of Wonder is attained, but we do not know what will be crossed for the fourth world. Who acts: You, we. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/62/6/) [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 I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/62/) / 6 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 6 You will cross clay to get into the Shi’; you will cross water to attain the Many-Coloured Land; fire must be passed ere the Land of Wonder is attained, but we do not know what will be crossed for the fourth world. **Who acts:** You, we · **What happens:** cross, get, attain, pass, not know · **To what, where:** clay, Shi, water, Coloured Land, fire, Land · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (You, we), 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:pg2892:62:6 # text = You will cross clay to get into the Shi’; you will cross water to attain the Many-Coloured Land; fire must be passed ere the Land of Wonder is attained, but we do not know what will be crossed for the fourth world. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Shi Shi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’ 's PART POS _ 9 case _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 attain attain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 Land Land PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 28 ere ere ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Wonder Wonder PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 attained attain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 41 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 44 obj _ _ 42 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 crossed cross VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 ccomp _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 fourth fourth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 48 amod _ _ 48 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | future | You | clay | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clay=Patient | | 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | the Shi | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shi=Stimulus | | 3 | **cross** | future | you | water | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 4 | **attain** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the Coloured Land | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 5 | **pass** | must · passive | | fire | | | ere the Land | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | | 6 | **attain** | present · passive | | the Land *not said here* | | | | of Wonder | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | | 7 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | we | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **cross** | future · passive | | | | | | for the fourth world | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: what=Patient | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/62/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/62/7/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/62/)