--- title: “It is a long time since I saw you, Tibraide’,” said the king, “but… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “It is a long time since I saw you, Tibraide’,” said the king, “but at this minute I am in great haste and hurry. Who acts: kiss, king. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/87/6/) [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/) / 6 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 6 “It is a long time since I saw you, Tibraide’,” said the king, “but at this minute I am in great haste and hurry. **Who acts:** kiss, king · **What happens:** be, see, say, hurry · **To what, where:** long time, you, great haste · **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 (kiss, king), 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:pg2892:87:6 # text = “It is a long time since I saw you, Tibraide’,” said the king, “but at this minute I am in great haste and hurry. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ _ 7 since since SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Tibraide Tibraide PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 20 “ " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 haste haste NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 hurry hurry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | kiss | a long time | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | the king *= king* | you | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the king *= king* | | | great haste | minute | | tree rules | | 5 | **hurry** *in a quote* | infinitive | the king *= king* *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/87/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/87/7/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVI. 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