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title: And,” he continued, “when she speaks to a man who has no wife of his… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And,” he continued, “when she speaks to a man who has no wife of his own about her love for another man then she is disliked.” Who acts: king, woman, man. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 17

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And,” he continued, “when she speaks to a man who has no wife of his own about her love for another man then she is disliked.”

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**Who acts:** king, woman, man · **What happens:** continue, speak, have, dislike, love · **To what, where:** wife, woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, woman, man), 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:pg2892:64:17
# text = And,” he continued, “when she speaks to a man who has no wife of his own about her love for another man then she is disliked.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	disliked	dislike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | woman |  |  |  |  | to a man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | a man | no wife of king's own |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 4 | **dislike** | present · passive |  | woman |  |  | then |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **love** |  | woman |  |  |  |  | for another man | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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