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title: Although she questioned and cross-questioned Cairide’, her story-tel… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Although she questioned and cross-questioned Cairide’, her story-teller, she could discover nothing about a lady who had been known as the Black Duck. Who acts: lament. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 14

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Although she questioned and cross-questioned Cairide’, her story-teller, she could discover nothing about a lady who had been known as the Black Duck.

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**Who acts:** lament · **What happens:** question, discover, know · **To what, where:** cross-questioned Cairide, nothing, lady

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lament), 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:pg2892:73:14
# text = Although she questioned and cross-questioned Cairide’, her story-teller, she could discover nothing about a lady who had been known as the Black Duck.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	questioned	question	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	cross-questioned	cross-questioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Cairide	Cairide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obj	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Duck	Duck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **question** *speech: other* | past | lament |  | cross-questioned Cairide |  |  |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cairide=Recipient |
| 2 | **discover** | could | lament | nothing |  |  |  | about a lady | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 3 | **know** | past · perfect · passive |  | a lady |  |  |  | as the Black Duck | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as duck=Attribute |

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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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