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title: “There is nothing to marvel about in this Duv Laca,” said the Flame… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “There is nothing to marvel about in this Duv Laca,” said the Flame Lady scornfully. Who acts: nothing, Flame Lady. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 1

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“There is nothing to marvel about in this Duv Laca,” said the Flame Lady scornfully.

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**Who acts:** nothing, Flame Lady · **What happens:** be, marvel, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, Flame Lady), 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:pg2892:81:1
# text = “There is nothing to marvel about in this Duv Laca,” said the Flame Lady scornfully.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	marvel	marvel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Flame	Flame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
18	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **marvel** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about Duv Laca | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Flame Lady |  |  |  |  | scornfully *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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