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title: “And if you come into a house where I am during the time and term of… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “And if you come into a house where I am during the time and term of that year, you are not to sit down in the chair that I am sitting in.” Who acts: you, Branduv. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 23

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“And if you come into a house where I am during the time and term of that year, you are not to sit down in the chair that I am sitting in.”

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**Who acts:** you, Branduv · **What happens:** come, be, not be, sit in, term · **To what, where:** house, chair, year

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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 (you, Branduv), 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:pg2892:83:23
# text = “And if you come into a house where I am during the time and term of that year, you are not to sit down in the chair that I am sitting in.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  | a house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Branduv |  |  |  | during the time and term of that year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  | the chair |  | sit *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit in** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Branduv |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **term** *in a quote* |  |  | that year |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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