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title: “But dear child and prince,” said another, kissing him likewise, “if… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “But dear child and prince,” said another, kissing him likewise, “if any one of us could save Ireland by dying for her how cheerfully we would die.” Who acts: dear child, one, we. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 15

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“But dear child and prince,” said another, kissing him likewise, “if any one of us could save Ireland by dying for her how cheerfully we would die.”

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**Who acts:** dear child, one, we · **What happens:** say, kiss, save, die · **To what, where:** another, Segda, Ireland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear child, one, we), 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:pg2892:68:15
# text = “But dear child and prince,” said another, kissing him likewise, “if any one of us could save Ireland by dying for her how cheerfully we would die.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	kissing	kiss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
24	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
30	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | dear child and prince | another |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic |
| 2 | **kiss** | gerund | dear child and prince *not said here* | Segda |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **save** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | could | any one of us | Ireland |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ireland=Theme |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* | gerund | any one of us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Tara | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for she=Theme |
| 5 | **die** *in a quote* | would | we |  |  |  |  | cheerfully *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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