--- title: People who cut your hair or told your fortune or gave you a hot bath… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: People who cut your hair or told your fortune or gave you a hot bath in a pot. Who acts: People. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/85/17/) [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 XIV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/85/) / 17 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 17 People who cut your hair or told your fortune or gave you a hot bath in a pot. **Who acts:** People · **What happens:** cut, tell, give · **To what, where:** hair, fortune, hot bath, you, pot · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People), 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:pg2892:85:17 # text = People who cut your hair or told your fortune or gave you a hot bath in a pot. 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | present | People | your hair | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Product | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | People *not said here* | your fortune | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fortune=Recipient | | 3 | **give** | past | People *not said here* | a hot bath | you | a pot | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bath=Theme | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/85/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/85/18/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/85/)