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title: Such an idea, however, did not occur to him, for he could not concei… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Such an idea, however, did not occur to him, for he could not conceive how any woman should fill the place his queen had vacated. Who acts: idea, woman, queen. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 15

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Such an idea, however, did not occur to him, for he could not conceive how any woman should fill the place his queen had vacated.

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**Who acts:** idea, woman, queen · **What happens:** not occur, not conceive, fill, vacate · **To what, where:** Ireland, place

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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 (idea, woman, queen), 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:pg2892:63:15
# text = Such an idea, however, did not occur to him, for he could not conceive how any woman should fill the place his queen had vacated.
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	occur	occur	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	conceive	conceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	vacated	vacate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **occur** | past · do-support | such idea |  | Ireland |  |  | however *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **conceive** | could | idea |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fill** | should | any woman | the place |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 4 | **vacate** | past · perfect | Ireland's queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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