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title: “Am I not your mother also?” she replied mockingly, as she took the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Am I not your mother also?” she replied mockingly, as she took the seat which the chief magician leaped from. Who acts: mother, seat. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 23

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“Am I not your mother also?” she replied mockingly, as she took the seat which the chief magician leaped from.

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**Who acts:** mother, seat · **What happens:** not be, reply, take, magician, leap · **To what, where:** mother, seat, chief magician · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, seat), 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:pg2892:69:23
# text = “Am I not your mother also?” she replied mockingly, as she took the seat which the chief magician leaped from.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	mockingly	mockingly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | your mother *= mother* | your mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | your mother |  |  |  |  | mockingly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past | mother | the seat |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme |
| 4 | **magician** |  | the seat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leap** | participle |  | the chief magician *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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