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title: But every time he sent anything to the hag, mac an Da’v snatched it… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But every time he sent anything to the hag, mac an Da’v snatched it out of her lap and put it in his pocket. Who acts: King, you, Da’v. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 14

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But every time he sent anything to the hag, mac an Da’v snatched it out of her lap and put it in his pocket.

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**Who acts:** King, you, Da’v · **What happens:** send, mac, snatch, put · **To what, where:** anything, hag, whispering, lap, pocket

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you, Da’v), 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:pg2892:91:14
# text = But every time he sent anything to the hag, mac an Da’v snatched it out of her lap and put it in his pocket.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	mac	mac	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | King | anything | the hag |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent anything=Theme to hag=Destination |
| 2 | **mac** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **snatch** | past | a Da’v | whispering |  | hag's lap |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme out lap=Source |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | whispering |  | King's pocket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination |

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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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