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title: The queen of this island lived there, Rigru (Large-eyed), the daught… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The queen of this island lived there, Rigru (Large-eyed), the daughter of Lodan, and wife of Daire Degamra. Who acts: queen. 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 3

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The queen of this island lived there, Rigru (Large-eyed), the daughter of Lodan, and wife of Daire Degamra.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** Rigru

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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 (queen), 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:pg2892:67:3
# text = The queen of this island lived there, Rigru (Large-eyed), the daughter of Lodan, and wife of Daire Degamra.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Rigru	Rigru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Lodan	Lodan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Daire	Daire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	Degamra	Degamra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the queen of this island | Rigru |  | there |  | wife of Daire *obl* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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