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title: THE STORY OF TUAN MAC CAIRILL THE BOYHOOD OF FIONN THE BIRTH OF BRAN… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: THE STORY OF TUAN MAC CAIRILL THE BOYHOOD OF FIONN THE BIRTH OF BRAN OISI’N’S MOTHER THE WOOING OF BECFOLA THE LITTLE BRAWL AT ALLEN THE CARL OF THE DRAB COAT THE ENCHANTED CAVE OF CESH CORRAN BECUMA OF THE WHITE SKIN MONGAN’S FRENZY Who acts: LITTLE BRAWL. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Irish Fairy Tales, sentence 3

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THE STORY OF TUAN MAC CAIRILL THE BOYHOOD OF FIONN THE BIRTH OF BRAN OISI’N’S MOTHER THE WOOING OF BECFOLA THE LITTLE BRAWL AT ALLEN THE CARL OF THE DRAB COAT THE ENCHANTED CAVE OF CESH CORRAN BECUMA OF THE WHITE SKIN MONGAN’S FRENZY

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**Who acts:** LITTLE BRAWL · **What happens:** coat, enchant, woo · **To what, where:** ENCHANTED CAVE, BECFOLA

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Irish Fairy Tales. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (LITTLE BRAWL), 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:pg2892:1:3
# text = THE STORY OF TUAN MAC CAIRILL THE BOYHOOD OF FIONN THE BIRTH OF BRAN OISI’N’S MOTHER THE WOOING OF BECFOLA THE LITTLE BRAWL AT ALLEN THE CARL OF THE DRAB COAT THE ENCHANTED CAVE OF CESH CORRAN BECUMA OF THE WHITE SKIN MONGAN’S FRENZY
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	STORY	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	TUAN	TUAN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	MAC	MAC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	CAIRILL	CAIRILL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	BOYHOOD	boyhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	FIONN	FIONN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	BIRTH	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	BRAN	BRAN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	OISI’N	OISI'N	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’S	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
17	MOTHER	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	WOOING	wooing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	BECFOLA	BECFOLA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	LITTLE	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	BRAWL	brawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
25	AT	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	ALLEN	ALLEN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	CARL	CARL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	DRAB	drab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	COAT	coat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
33	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	ENCHANTED	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	CAVE	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	CESH	CESH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	CORRAN	CORRAN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	BECUMA	BECUMA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	WHITE	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	SKIN	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
44	MONGAN	MONGAN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	’S	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	FRENZY	frenzy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coat** | infinitive | the LITTLE BRAWL at ALLEN | the ENCHANTED CAVE of CESH CORRAN of the WHITE SKIN and FRENZY |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Destination |
| 2 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **woo** |  |  | BECFOLA |  |  |  |  | nom wooing «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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