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title: The youngster was brought to the woods of Slieve Bloom and was nurse… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The youngster was brought to the woods of Slieve Bloom and was nursed there in secret. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 15

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The youngster was brought to the woods of Slieve Bloom and was nursed there in secret.

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**What happens:** bring, nurse · **To what, where:** youngster, woods, secret

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2892:14:15
# text = The youngster was brought to the woods of Slieve Bloom and was nursed there in secret.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youngster	youngster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Slieve	Slieve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Bloom	Bloom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	nursed	nurse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · passive |  | the youngster |  | the woods of Slieve Bloom |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to wood=Destination |
| 2 | **nurse** | past · passive |  |  |  | secret; there |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary» |

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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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