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title: Mongan and Duv Laca used to play chess together, and then they would… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mongan and Duv Laca used to play chess together, and then they would go out together to look at the cows, and then they would go in together and would talk to each other about the cows. Who acts: Mongan, cows. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI, with its dependency tree 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 3

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Mongan and Duv Laca used to play chess together, and then they would go out together to look at the cows, and then they would go in together and would talk to each other about the cows.

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**Who acts:** Mongan, cows · **What happens:** use, play, go out, look, go in, talk · **To what, where:** chess

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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 (Mongan, 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:pg2892:82:3
# text = Mongan and Duv Laca used to play chess together, and then they would go out together to look at the cows, and then they would go in together and would talk to each other about the cows.
1	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
29	in	in	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	together	together	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	33	obl	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	fixed	_	_
37	about	about	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Mongan and Duv |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | Mongan and Duv *not said here* | chess |  |  |  | together *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=Theme |
| 3 | **go out** | would | cows *= cow* |  |  |  | then | out, together *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | cows *= cow* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the cows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cow=Theme |
| 5 | **go in** | would | cows *= cow* |  |  |  | then | together *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **talk** | would | cows *= cow* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to each; about the cows | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent about cow=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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