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title: Then they offered a cow for each leg of her cow, but she would not a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they offered a cow for each leg of her cow, but she would not accept that offer unless Fiachna went bail for the payment. Who acts: things, cow, Fiachna. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 14

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Then they offered a cow for each leg of her cow, but she would not accept that offer unless Fiachna went bail for the payment.

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**Who acts:** things, cow, Fiachna · **What happens:** offer, not accept, go · **To what, where:** cow, offer, bail

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. Said Mongan:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, cow, Fiachna), 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:pg2892:76:14
# text = Then they offered a cow for each leg of her cow, but she would not accept that offer unless Fiachna went bail for the payment.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
23	bail	bail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past | things *= thing* | a cow |  |  | then | for each leg of cow's cow *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent cow=Theme for leg=Goal |
| 2 | **not** **accept** | would | cow | that offer |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Fiachna | bail |  |  |  | for the payment | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bail=Theme |

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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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