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title: Although Delvcaem’s mother wished nothing but ill to Art, she yet tr… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Although Delvcaem’s mother wished nothing but ill to Art, she yet treated him with the courtesy proper in a queen on the one hand and fitting towards the son of the King of Ireland on the other. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X, with its dependency tre
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 23

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Although Delvcaem’s mother wished nothing but ill to Art, she yet treated him with the courtesy proper in a queen on the one hand and fitting towards the son of the King of Ireland on the other.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** wish, treat, fit · **To what, where:** nothing, Delvcaem, other

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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 (mother), 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:pg2892:71:23
# text = Although Delvcaem’s mother wished nothing but ill to Art, she yet treated him with the courtesy proper in a queen on the one hand and fitting towards the son of the King of Ireland on the other.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Delvcaem	Delvcaem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fitting	fit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
29	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | Delvcaem's mother | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme |
| 2 | **treat** | past | mother |  | Delvcaem |  | yet | with the courtesy; in a queen on the one hand; properly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with courtesy=Theme |
| 3 | **fit** | gerund | mother *not said here* |  |  | the other |  | towards the son of the King of Ireland | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent towards son=Trajectory |

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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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