--- title: I would rather protect you,” he continued, “than see you killed; for… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I would rather protect you,” he continued, “than see you killed; for,” said he lamentably, “I am getting down now to fight the sheep.” Who acts: I, Fiachna, you. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/78/5/) [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 VII. “It is not nice of you to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/78/) / 5 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 5 I would rather protect you,” he continued, “than see you killed; for,” said he lamentably, “I am getting down now to fight the sheep.” **Who acts:** I, Fiachna, you · **What happens:** protect, continue, see, kill, say, get down · **To what, where:** you, sheep · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Fiachna, you), 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:pg2892:78:5 # text = I would rather protect you,” he continued, “than see you killed; for,” said he lamentably, “I am getting down now to fight the sheep.” 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 rather rather ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 than than SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ” " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lamentably lamentably ADV RB _ 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 “ " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 28 down down ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **protect** | would | I | you | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | Fiachna | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **see** | infinitive | Fiachna *not said here* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **kill** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Fiachna *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **get down** | present · progressive | I | | | | now | down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **fight** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the sheep | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Co-Agent | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/78/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/78/6/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/78/)