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title: She fell in love with them as Mongan had done, but there was nobody… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She fell in love with them as Mongan had done, but there was nobody in the world could have avoided loving those cows: such cows they were! such wonders! Who acts: Duv, Mongan, nobody, cows. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 2

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She fell in love with them as Mongan had done, but there was nobody in the world could have avoided loving those cows: such cows they were! such wonders!

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**Who acts:** Duv, Mongan, nobody, cows · **What happens:** fall, do, be, avoid, love · **To what, where:** love, cows, such wonders

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duv, Mongan, nobody, cows), 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:pg2892:82:2
# text = She fell in love with them as Mongan had done, but there was nobody in the world could have avoided loving those cows: such cows they were! such wonders!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	21	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	avoided	avoid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
22	loving	love	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
31	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Duv |  |  | love |  | with cows *= cow* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | Mongan |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** | past | Duv *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **avoid** | could · perfect | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **love** | gerund | nobody *not said here* | that cows |  |  |  | such cows *obl* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is a** | past | cows *= cow* | such wonders |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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