--- title: “For,” said he, “there are very good tales among those ones, and it… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “For,” said he, “there are very good tales among those ones, and it would be a pity if the people who come after us should be ignorant of what happened long ago, and of the deeds of their fathers.” Who acts: neighbourhood, good tales, Gospel, people. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/72/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/72/) / 4 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 4 “For,” said he, “there are very good tales among those ones, and it would be a pity if the people who come after us should be ignorant of what happened long ago, and of the deeds of their fathers.” **Who acts:** neighbourhood, good tales, Gospel, people · **What happens:** say, be, come, happen · **To what, where:** pity · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbourhood, good tales, Gospel, people), 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:pg2892:72:4 # text = “For,” said he, “there are very good tales among those ones, and it would be a pity if the people who come after us should be ignorant of what happened long ago, and of the deeds of their fathers.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 For for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 10 expl _ _ 10 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 14 among among ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 pity pity NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 after after ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 33 ignorant ignorant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 advcl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 obl _ _ 36 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 37 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 38 ago ago ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 deeds deed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | neighbourhood | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | good tales | | | there | | among that ones | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among one=Location | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | would | Gospel | a pity | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the people | | | | after us | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | should | the people | | | | | of a pity; ignorant *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **happen** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | ago *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/72/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/72/5/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/72/)