--- title: Everything in Faery is better by this one wonderful degree, and it i… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Everything in Faery is better by this one wonderful degree, and it is by this betterness you will know that you are there if you should ever happen to get there. Who acts: Everything, comeliness, you. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/75/7/) [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 IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/75/) / 7 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 7 Everything in Faery is better by this one wonderful degree, and it is by this betterness you will know that you are there if you should ever happen to get there. **Who acts:** Everything, comeliness, you · **What happens:** be, know, happen, get · **To what, where:** betterness · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, comeliness, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2892:2217`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:75:7 # text = Everything in Faery is better by this one wonderful degree, and it is by this betterness you will know that you are there if you should ever happen to get there. 1 Everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 5 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Faery Faery PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 degree degree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 betterness betterness NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 ccomp _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 29 advmod _ _ 29 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Everything | | | | | by this one wonderful degree; good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | comeliness | | | | | by this betterness | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | future | you | this betterness *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer betterness=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | you | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | you | | | | ever | | tree rules | | 6 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | there | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/75/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/75/8/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/75/)