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title: At what precise instant he forgot his dead consort we do not know, b… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At what precise instant he forgot his dead consort we do not know, but it is certain that at this moment his mind was no longer burdened with that dear and lovely memory. Who acts: king, we, consort. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 12

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At what precise instant he forgot his dead consort we do not know, but it is certain that at this moment his mind was no longer burdened with that dear and lovely memory.

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**Who acts:** king, we, consort · **What happens:** forget, not know, be, burden, mind · **To what, where:** dead consort, precise instant, mind

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, we, consort), 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:pg2892:64:12
# text = At what precise instant he forgot his dead consort we do not know, but it is certain that at this moment his mind was no longer burdened with that dear and lovely memory.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
3	precise	precise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	consort	consort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
26	no	no	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	burdened	burden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
31	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | king | king's dead consort |  | precise instant |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | we | king's dead consort *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer consort=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | consort |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **burden** | past · passive |  | king's mind |  |  | moment | with that dear memory; long *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with memory=Theme |
| 5 | **mind** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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