--- title: He was so confounded with joy also that his words got mixed up with… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He was so confounded with joy also that his words got mixed up with his teeth, and Duv Laca did not know exactly what it was he was trying to say, and he did not seem to know himself. Who acts: Duv, joy, King. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duv, joy, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2892:2424`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:83:2 # text = He was so confounded with joy also that his words got mixed up with his teeth, and Duv Laca did not know exactly what it was he was trying to say, and he did not seem to know himself. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 confounded confound VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 Duv Duv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 Laca Laca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 21 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 24 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 23 ccomp _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 acl:relcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 40 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **confound** | past · passive | | King | | | | with joy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **mix up** | past · passive | | King's words | | | | with King's teeth | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with tooth=Co-Patient | | 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Duv | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | past | joy | | | | | exactly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **try** | past · progressive | King | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **seem** | past · do-support | King | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 8 | **know** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | King | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | | 9 | **word** | | King | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/83/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/83/3/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/83/)