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title: "Why, then, no," she replied; "and if ever a man left his house in a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Why, then, no," she replied; "and if ever a man left his house in a fury, he did. Who acts: Mrs., man, husband. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 71

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"Why, then, no," she replied; "and if ever a man left his house in a fury, he did.

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**Who acts:** Mrs., man, husband · **What happens:** reply, leave, do · **To what, where:** house, fury · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs., man, husband), 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:pg7885:22:71
# text = "Why, then, no," she replied; "and if ever a man left his house in a fury, he did.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Mrs. |  |  |  | then |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | a man | husband's house |  | a fury |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme in fury=Location |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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