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title: “It is yet,” he continued thoughtfully, “a reasonable reason that yo… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is yet,” he continued thoughtfully, “a reasonable reason that you give and I will do what you ask, but by my hand and word I don’t like doing it.” Who acts: presence, Conn, you, duty. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 37

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“It is yet,” he continued thoughtfully, “a reasonable reason that you give and I will do what you ask, but by my hand and word I don’t like doing it.”

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**Who acts:** presence, Conn, you, duty · **What happens:** be, continue, give, do, ask, not like · **To what, where:** reasonable reason, presence

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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 (presence, Conn, you, duty), 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:pg2892:64:37
# text = “It is yet,” he continued thoughtfully, “a reasonable reason that you give and I will do what you ask, but by my hand and word I don’t like doing it.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
36	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	xcomp	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | presence |  |  |  |  | yet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** | past | Conn | a reasonable reason |  |  |  | thoughtfully *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | present | you | a reasonable reason |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | future | duty |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
| 6 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | duty |  |  |  |  | by my hand and word | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **do** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | duty *not said here* | presence |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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