--- title: Mongan did not want to say anything more then, but the King of Leins… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Mongan did not want to say anything more then, but the King of Leinster was so intent and everybody else was listening and Duv Laca was nudging his arm, so he said: “What is it that you do want?” Who acts: Mongan, King, everybody, Duv. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/82/37/) [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 XI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/82/) / 37 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 37 Mongan did not want to say anything more then, but the King of Leinster was so intent and everybody else was listening and Duv Laca was nudging his arm, so he said: “What is it that you do want?” **Who acts:** Mongan, King, everybody, Duv, you · **What happens:** not want, say, be, listen, nudge, want · **To what, where:** anything, arm, breast · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, King, everybody, Duv), 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:pg2892:82:37 # text = Mongan did not want to say anything more then, but the King of Leinster was so intent and everybody else was listening and Duv Laca was nudging his arm, so he said: “What is it that you do want?” 1 Mongan Mongan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obj _ _ 8 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 9 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Leinster Leinster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 intent intent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 23 nsubj _ _ 21 else else ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 Duv Duv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 Laca Laca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 nudging nudge VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 : : PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 36 “ " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 39 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 ccomp _ _ 40 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | Mongan | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mongan *not said here* | anything | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | | 3 | **is** | past | the King of Leinster | | | | | intent *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **listen** | past · progressive | everybody | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **nudge** | past · progressive | Duv | Mongan's arm | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Mongan | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | breast | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/82/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/82/38/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/82/)