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title: “During a year,” Conn replied, “there has been neither corn nor milk… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “During a year,” Conn replied, “there has been neither corn nor milk in Ireland. Who acts: Conn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 16

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“During a year,” Conn replied, “there has been neither corn nor milk in Ireland.

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**Who acts:** Conn · **What happens:** reply, be · **To what, where:** corn, Ireland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn), 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:pg2892:67:16
# text = “During a year,” Conn replied, “there has been neither corn nor milk in Ireland.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
14	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
17	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Conn |  |  |  | year |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | participle |  | neither corn nor milk |  | Ireland |  |  | tree rules |

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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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