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title: Therefore none of the dangers encountered by Art were real, but were… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore none of the dangers encountered by Art were real, but were magical chimeras conjured against him by the great witch. Who acts: none, magical chimeras. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 15

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Therefore none of the dangers encountered by Art were real, but were magical chimeras conjured against him by the great witch.

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**Who acts:** none, magical chimeras · **What happens:** encounter, be

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, magical chimeras), 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:pg2892:71:15
# text = Therefore none of the dangers encountered by Art were real, but were magical chimeras conjured against him by the great witch.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	chimeras	chimera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	conjured	conjure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encounter** | past | none |  |  |  |  | by Art; therefore *property* | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **be** | past | none *not said here* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | magical chimeras |  |  |  |  | against Art; by the great witch; conjure *property* | 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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