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title: But during that period things did not go well with the king nor with… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But during that period things did not go well with the king nor with Ireland. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 24

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But during that period things did not go well with the king nor with Ireland.

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**What happens:** not go

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2892:65:24
# text = But during that period things did not go well with the king nor with Ireland.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	during	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  | during period things | with the king nor Ireland; well *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with king=Beneficiary |

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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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