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title: “Find a perfectly white cow with red ears, and boil it down in the l… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Find a perfectly white cow with red ears, and boil it down in the lump, and if the king drinks that rendering he will recover.” Who acts: you, king. 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 9

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“Find a perfectly white cow with red ears, and boil it down in the lump, and if the king drinks that rendering he will recover.”

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**Who acts:** you, king · **What happens:** find, boil down, drink, render, recover · **To what, where:** white cow, medicine, lump · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, king), 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:pg2892:76:9
# text = “Find a perfectly white cow with red ears, and boil it down in the lump, and if the king drinks that rendering he will recover.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	boil	boil	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	rendering	render	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | a white cow |  |  |  | with red ears | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Topic |
| 2 | **boil down** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | medicine |  | the lump |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **drink** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **render** *in a quote* | gerund | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **recover** *in a quote* | future | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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