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title: Duv Laca and the King of Leinster went apart then to speak together,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Duv Laca and the King of Leinster went apart then to speak together, and the eye of the king seemed to be as big as a plate, so fevered was it and so enlarged and inflamed by the look of Duv Laca. Who acts: Duv, eye. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII, with its dependen
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 1

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Duv Laca and the King of Leinster went apart then to speak together, and the eye of the king seemed to be as big as a plate, so fevered was it and so enlarged and inflamed by the look of Duv Laca.

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**Who acts:** Duv, eye · **What happens:** go, speak, seem, be, fever, inflame · **To what, where:** eye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duv, eye), 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:pg2892:83:1
# text = Duv Laca and the King of Leinster went apart then to speak together, and the eye of the king seemed to be as big as a plate, so fevered was it and so enlarged and inflamed by the look of Duv Laca.
1	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	fevered	fever	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	enlarged	enlarged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	inflamed	inflame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Duv and the King of Leinster |  |  |  | then | apart *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Duv and the King of Leinster *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the eye of the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | the eye of the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a plate; big *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fever** | participle | the eye of the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | eye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **inflame** | participle | the eye of the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the look of Duv | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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