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title: The Boyhood of Fionn — Irish Fairy Tales · full text with trees
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# The Boyhood of Fionn

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The Boyhood of Fionn of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens: the whole text, 5 sentences and 72 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/13/1/) — He was a king, a seer and a poet.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/13/2/) — He was a lord with a manifold and great train.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/13/3/) — He was our magician, our knowledgable one, our soothsayer.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/13/4/) — All that he did was sweet with him.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/13/5/) — And, however ye deem my testimony of Fionn excessive, and, although ye hold my praising overstrained, nevertheless, and by the King that is above me, he was three times better than all I say.--Saint PATRICK.

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