--- title: “I think that your friends in Faery have cheated,” he replied, “but… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “I think that your friends in Faery have cheated,” he replied, “but the game is yours if you are content to win it that way.” Who acts: Faery, game, yours. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Faery, game, yours), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:69:43 # text = “I think that your friends in Faery have cheated,” he replied, “but the game is yours if you are content to win it that way.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Faery Faery PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 cheated cheat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ” " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 content content ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Faery | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **cheat** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | your friends in Faery | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Faery | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the game | yours | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | yours | | | | | content *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **win** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | yours *not said here* | statement | | | | that way *obl:unmarked* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/69/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/69/44/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/69/)