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title: "Yes, but it is not here I would wish it to be, though it happens to… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes, but it is not here I would wish it to be, though it happens to be here by mishap," says the king's son. Who acts: Bad, son, it. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 48

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"Yes, but it is not here I would wish it to be, though it happens to be here by mishap," says the king's son.

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**Who acts:** Bad, son, it · **What happens:** not be, wish, happen, be, say · **To what, where:** Bad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bad, son, it), 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:pg7885:31:48
# text = "Yes, but it is not here I would wish it to be, though it happens to be here by mishap," says the king's son.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	mishap	mishap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
26	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Bad |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wish** *in a quote* | would | the king's son *= son* | Bad |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by mishap; here *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the king's son |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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