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title: It was in the illness which comes from longing and despair that he s… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was in the illness which comes from longing and despair that he sat one day looking on a world that was black although the sun shone, and that was lean and unwholesome although autumn fruits were heavy on the earth and the joys of harvest were about him. Who acts: despair, illness, pleasure, one 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 4

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It was in the illness which comes from longing and despair that he sat one day looking on a world that was black although the sun shone, and that was lean and unwholesome although autumn fruits were heavy on the earth and the joys of harvest were about him.

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**Who acts:** despair, illness, pleasure, one day, world, sun · **What happens:** be, come, sit, look, shine, joy · **To what, where:** illness, longing, despair, earth, harvest

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (despair, illness, pleasure, one day), 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:pg2892:89:4
# text = It was in the illness which comes from longing and despair that he sat one day looking on a world that was black although the sun shone, and that was lean and unwholesome although autumn fruits were heavy on the earth and the joys of harvest were about him.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	unwholesome	unwholesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	joys	joy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	about	about	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | despair |  |  | the illness |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | the illness |  |  | longing and despair |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from longing=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sit** | past | pleasure | despair *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location despair=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | one day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on a world | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on world=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | a world |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | lean *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | past | autumn fruits |  |  | the earth |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **is** | past | the joys of harvest |  |  |  |  | about pleasure | tree rules |
| 11 | **joy** |  |  | harvest |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling 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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