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title: “THE fisherman of Cairill, the King of Ulster, took me in his net. — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “THE fisherman of Cairill, the King of Ulster, took me in his net. Who acts: fisherman. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 1

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“THE fisherman of Cairill, the King of Ulster, took me in his net.

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**Who acts:** fisherman · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** me, net

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), 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:pg2892:12:1
# text = “THE fisherman of Cairill, the King of Ulster, took me in his net.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Cairill	Cairill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | past | the fisherman of Cairill |  | me | fisherman's net |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Value in net=Location |

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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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