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title: “The Red Etin of Ireland”-- (Repeat the verses above.) — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “The Red Etin of Ireland”-- (Repeat the verses above.) Who acts: Red Etin. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 15

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“The Red Etin of Ireland”-- (Repeat the verses above.)

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**Who acts:** Red Etin · **What happens:** repeat · **To what, where:** verses

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red Etin), 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:pg503:56:15
# text = “The Red Etin of Ireland”-- (Repeat the verses above.)
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
4	Etin	Etin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	above	above	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | infinitive | the Red Etin of Ireland | the verses |  |  |  | above *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Eventuality |

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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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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