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title: For the dead queen had been so lovely that Conn could not forget her… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For the dead queen had been so lovely that Conn could not forget her; she had been so kind at every moment that he could not but miss her at every moment; but it was in the Council Chamber and the Judgement Hall that he most pondered her memory. Who acts: Conn, sun, cairn, keen. A sentence of «Irish
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 11

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For the dead queen had been so lovely that Conn could not forget her; she had been so kind at every moment that he could not but miss her at every moment; but it was in the Council Chamber and the Judgement Hall that he most pondered her memory.

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**Who acts:** Conn, sun, cairn, keen · **What happens:** be, not forget, not be, miss, ponder · **To what, where:** sun, Council Chamber, memory

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn, sun, cairn, keen), 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:pg2892:63:11
# text = For the dead queen had been so lovely that Conn could not forget her; she had been so kind at every moment that he could not but miss her at every moment; but it was in the Council Chamber and the Judgement Hall that he most pondered her memory.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Chamber	Chamber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	Judgement	Judgement	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	49	advmod	_	_
49	pondered	ponder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
50	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | for the dead queen; lovely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **forget** | could | Conn | sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | sun |  |  |  | moment | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **miss** | infinitive | sun *not said here* | sun |  |  | moment |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | cairn |  |  | the Council Chamber and the Judgement Hall |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **ponder** | past | keen | sun's memory |  |  |  |  | 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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