--- title: “Let everybody leave this room, while I am talking to the queen,” sa… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Let everybody leave this room, while I am talking to the queen,” said he; and all the attendants left the room, except one, and she wouldn’t go, for she wouldn’t leave her mistress. Who acts: everybody, Mongan, attendants, Kevin. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/87/14/) [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 XVI. They met him near the pla…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/87/) / 14 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 14 “Let everybody leave this room, while I am talking to the queen,” said he; and all the attendants left the room, except one, and she wouldn’t go, for she wouldn’t leave her mistress. **Who acts:** everybody, Mongan, attendants, Kevin · **What happens:** let, leave, talk, say, not go, not leave · **To what, where:** everybody, room, mistress · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, Mongan, attendants, Kevin), 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:pg2892:87:14 # text = “Let everybody leave this room, while I am talking to the queen,” said he; and all the attendants left the room, except one, and she wouldn’t go, for she wouldn’t leave her mistress. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 3 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 2 obj _ _ 4 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 while while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 except except ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 34 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 for for SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 40 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 parataxis _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | everybody | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | everybody *not said here* | this room | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | | 3 | **talk** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Mongan | | | | | to the queen | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to queen=Co-Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mongan | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **leave** | past | all attendants | the room | | | | except one | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | | 6 | **not** **go** | would | Kevin | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **leave** | would | Kevin | Kevin's mistress | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/87/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/87/15/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVI. 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