--- title: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens — the whole book with trees and pragmatics description: The whole of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, chapter by chapter: 3344 sentences, every one with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause, parsed by Mova. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / Irish Fairy Tales # «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens The whole of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA): 91 chapters, 3344 sentences. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics. Mova parsed them all itself; 46 are also in the tales treebank of release 0.3 and keep the tree a teacher model checked, the others say plainly that no teacher has checked them. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/1/) — Irish Fairy Tales — 3 sentences · By James Stephens - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/2/) — Chapter I — 18 sentences · Finnian, the Abbott of Moville, went southwards and eastwards in great haste. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/3/) — Chapter II — 35 sentences · Now Finnian could not abide that any person should resist both the Gospel and himself, and he proceeded to f… - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/4/) — Chapter III — 28 sentences · One day they were talking together about the majesty of God and His love, for although Tuan had now received… - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/5/) — Chapter IV — 34 sentences · But Finnian was not one who remained long in bewilderment. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/6/) — Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured — 27 sentences · “I was alone,” said Tuan. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/) — Chapter VI — 44 sentences · “THERE I dreamed, and I saw myself changing into a stag in dream, and I felt in dream the beating of a new h… - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/8/) — Chapter VII — 21 sentences · “Then my soul rose to the height of Doom, and I intended all that might happen to me, and agreed to it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/9/) — Chapter VIII — 29 sentences · “OLD age again overtook me. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/10/) — Chapter IX — 17 sentences · “I became the king of the salmon, and, with my multitudes, I ranged on the tides of the world. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/11/) — Chapter X — 11 sentences · “Delight and strength came to me again, and now I explored all the inland ways, the great lakes of Ireland,… - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/12/) — Chapter XI — 28 sentences · “THE fisherman of Cairill, the King of Ulster, took me in his net. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/13/) — The Boyhood of Fionn — 5 sentences · He was a king, a seer and a poet. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/14/) — Chapter I — 38 sentences · Fionn \[pronounce Fewn to rhyme with “tune”\] got his first training among women. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/15/) — Chapter II — 30 sentences · Were his nurses comely or harsh-looking? - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/16/) — Chapter III — 18 sentences · THE women druids, his guardians, belonged to his father’s people. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/17/) — Chapter IV — 34 sentences · He was given good training by the women in running and leaping and swimming. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/18/) — Chapter V — 44 sentences · ONE day his guardians were agitated: they held confabulations at which Fionn was not permitted to assist. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/19/) — Chapter VI — 26 sentences · But Fionn was gone. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/20/) — Chapter VII — 40 sentences · A new life for Fionn in the robber’s den that was hidden in a vast cold marsh. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/21/) — Chapter VIII — 62 sentences · Fionn went away, and now he was alone. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/22/) — Chapter IX — 52 sentences · All desires save one are fleeting, but that one lasts for ever. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/23/) — Chapter X — 80 sentences · Life continued for him in a round of timeless time, wherein days and nights were uneventful and were yet fil… - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/24/) — Chapter XI — 44 sentences · He had received all that he could get from Finegas. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/25/) — Chapter XII — 39 sentences · It is to be known that on the night of the Feast of Samhain the doors separating this world and the next one… - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/26/) — Chapter XIII — 57 sentences · He marched through the successive fortifications until he came to the outer, great wall, the boundary of the… - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/27/) — Chapter XIV — 40 sentences · He listened to the retreating footsteps until they could be heard no more, and the one sound that came to hi… - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/28/) — Chapter I — 24 sentences · There are people who do not like dogs a bit--they are usually women--but in this story there is a man who di… - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/29/) — Chapter II — 48 sentences · When Iollan and Tuiren were married they went to Ulster, and they lived together very happily. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/30/) — Chapter III — 45 sentences · As they paced along Uct Dealv railed bitterly against the hound, and shook and jerked her chain. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/31/) — Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant — 43 sentences · “Has that dog stopped shivering yet?” he asked. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/32/) — Chapter V — 40 sentences · In course of time the news came to Fionn that his mother’s sister was not living with Iollan. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/33/) — Chapter I — 42 sentences · EVENING was drawing nigh, and the Fianna-Finn had decided to hunt no more that day. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/34/) — Chapter II — 72 sentences · Late that night, when he was preparing for rest, the door of Fionn’s chamber opened gently and a young woman… - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/35/) — Chapter III — 52 sentences · It happened that the men of Lochlann came on an expedition against Ireland. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/36/) — Chapter IV — 36 sentences · “When you had been away for a day the guards were surprised. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/37/) — Chapter V — 36 sentences · For many years after that time, when he was not fighting against the enemies of Ireland, Fionn was searching… - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/38/) — Chapter VI — 19 sentences · Just as at one time he could not be parted from Saeve, so now he could not be separated from this boy. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/) — Chapter VII — 25 sentences · “I used to live,” he said, “in a wide, beautiful place. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/40/) — Chapter I — 76 sentences · We do not know where Becfola came from. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/41/) — Chapter II — 56 sentences · They were married in a haste which equalled the king’s desire; and as he did not again ask her name, and as… - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/42/) — Chapter III — 41 sentences · But after some time the moon arose and the wolves went away, for their leader, a sagacious and crafty chief,… - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/43/) — Chapter IV — 25 sentences · IT was so early that not even a bird was yet awake, and the dull grey light that came from the atmosphere en… - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/44/) — Chapter V — 60 sentences · In the morning as they sat at breakfast four clerics were announced, and when they entered the king looked o… - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/45/) — Chapter I — 50 sentences · “I think,” said Cairell Whiteskin, “that although judgement was given against Fionn, it was Fionn had the ri… - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/46/) — Chapter II — 91 sentences · \[This version of the death of Uail is not correct. - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/47/) — Chapter III — 57 sentences · AT the end of a fortnight Fionn and Goll and the chief men of the Fianna attended at Tara. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/48/) — Chapter I — 55 sentences · One day something happened to Fionn, the son of Uail; that is, he departed from the world of men, and was se… - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/49/) — Chapter II — 36 sentences · He had not gone a great distance from Ben Edair when he came to an intricate, gloomy wood, where the trees g… - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/50/) — Chapter III — 18 sentences · When they came among the host the men of Ireland gathered about the vast stranger; and there were some who h… - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/51/) — Chapter IV — 23 sentences · “Cael, my pulse,” said the Carl, “we had better build a house or a hut to pass the night in.” - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/52/) — Chapter V — 45 sentences · At the end of an hour the Carl awoke. - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/) — Chapter VI — 36 sentences · It would be hard to tell of the terror that was in Fionn’s breast and in the hearts of the Fianna while they… - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/54/) — Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher — 43 sentences · “Nothing,” that man replied. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/55/) — Chapter VIII — 32 sentences · The Carl of the Drab Coat came bumping and stumping and clumping into the camp, and was surrounded by a mult… - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/56/) — Chapter I — 12 sentences · Fionn mac Uail was the most prudent chief of an army in the world, but he was not always prudent on his own… - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/57/) — Chapter II — 32 sentences · Now the king of the Shi’ of Cesh Corran, Conaran, son of Imidel, was also watching the hunt, but Fionn did n… - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/) — Chapter III — 40 sentences · BY his arts Conaran changed the sight of Fionn’s eyes, and he did the same for Cona’n. - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/59/) — Chapter IV — 30 sentences · The instant they passed the holly a strange weakness came over the heroes. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/60/) — Chapter V — 23 sentences · Within the cave there was silence except for the voices of the hags and the scarcely audible moaning of the… - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/61/) — Chapter VI — 43 sentences · As each man came out of the cave he gave a jump and a shout; the courage of the world went into him and he f… - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/62/) — Chapter I — 30 sentences · There are more worlds than one, and in many ways they are unlike each other. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/63/) — Chapter II — 19 sentences · Conn the Hundred Fighter, Ard-Ri’ of Ireland, was in the lowest spirits that can be imagined, for his wife w… - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/64/) — Chapter III — 38 sentences · Being a king he had authority to ask questions. - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/65/) — Chapter IV — 35 sentences · It is part of the education of a prince to be a good chess player, and to continually exercise his mind in v… - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/66/) — Chapter V — 22 sentences · The High King did not know where exactly he should look for such a saviour, but he was well educated and kne… - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/67/) — Chapter VI — 33 sentences · Having gone some distance by these pleasant ways he saw a shapely house dozing in the sunlight. - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/68/) — Chapter VII — 42 sentences · On reaching the palace Conn called his magicians and poets to a council and informed them that he had found… - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/69/) — Chapter VIII — 46 sentences · There are good and evil people in this and in every other world, and the person who goes hence will go to th… - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/70/) — Chapter IX — 38 sentences · Art, as his father had done before him, set out for the Many-Coloured Land, but it was from Inver Colpa he e… - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/71/) — Chapter X — 60 sentences · He went forward in his light bark, and at some moment found that he had parted from those seas and was adrif… - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/72/) — Chapter I — 25 sentences · The abbot of the Monastery of Moville sent word to the story-tellers of Ireland that when they were in his n… - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/73/) — Chapter II. Said Cairide’: — 18 sentences · Mongan’s wife at that time was Bro’tiarna, the Flame Lady. - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/74/) — Chapter III — 8 sentences · In the year when Ciaran the son of the Carpenter died, the same year when Tuathal Maelgariv was killed and t… - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/75/) — Chapter IV — 30 sentences · There is a difference between this world and the world of Faery, but it is not immediately perceptible. - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/76/) — Chapter V. Said Mongan: — 18 sentences · In the days of long ago and the times that have disappeared for ever, there was one Fiachna Finn the son of… - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/77/) — Chapter VI — 28 sentences · A year passed, and one day as he was sitting at judgement there came a great noise from without, and this no… - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/78/) — Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn — 57 sentences · “Who could help laughing at a king hunkering on a branch and his army roosting around him like hens?” said t… - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/79/) — Chapter VIII — 21 sentences · “You have not told me one word about Duv Laca,” said the Flame Lady reproachfully. - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/80/) — Chapter IX — 21 sentences · One day Mongan and Duv Laca were playing chess in their palace. - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/81/) — Chapter X — 34 sentences · “There is nothing to marvel about in this Duv Laca,” said the Flame Lady scornfully. - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/82/) — Chapter XI — 47 sentences · Duv Laca wanted to know where the cows came from, and Mongan told her that the King of Leinster had given th… - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/83/) — Chapter XII — 35 sentences · Duv Laca and the King of Leinster went apart then to speak together, and the eye of the king seemed to be as… - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/84/) — Chapter XIII — 35 sentences · “I think,” said the Flame Lady, “that whoever lost that woman had no reason to be sad.” - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/85/) — Chapter XIV — 49 sentences · It was a long, uneasy journey, for although mac an Da’v was of stout heart and goodwill, yet no man can carr… - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/) — Chapter XV — 47 sentences · The road was now not so crowded as it had been. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/87/) — Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played — 18 sentences · “Good my soul, Tibraide’!” cried the King of Leinster, and he gave Mongan a kiss. - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/88/) — Chapter XVII — 36 sentences · But they were not alone, although they thought they were. - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/89/) — Chapter XVIII — 48 sentences · Mongan and his servant went home, and (for what pleasure is greater than that of memory exercised in convers… - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/90/) — Chapter XIX — 46 sentences · THEY sat in a place where they could watch the castle and compose themselves after their journey. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/91/) — Chapter XX — 50 sentences · The doorkeeper brought word to the King of Leinster that the son of the King of Connaught, Ae the Beautiful,…