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title: Fionn would have heard much of them, and it is likely that he practi… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fionn would have heard much of them, and it is likely that he practised on a nettle at taking the head off Goll, and that he hunted a sheep from cover in the implacable manner he intended later on for Cona’n the Swearer. Who acts: it, Fionn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapt
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 11

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Fionn would have heard much of them, and it is likely that he practised on a nettle at taking the head off Goll, and that he hunted a sheep from cover in the implacable manner he intended later on for Cona’n the Swearer.

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**Who acts:** it, Fionn · **What happens:** hear, be, practise, take, hunt, intend · **To what, where:** Fionn, nettle, head, Goll, sheep, cover

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Fionn), 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:pg2892:16:11
# text = Fionn would have heard much of them, and it is likely that he practised on a nettle at taking the head off Goll, and that he hunted a sheep from cover in the implacable manner he intended later on for Cona’n the Swearer.
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	practised	practise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	nettle	nettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	implacable	implacable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
40	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	Swearer	Swearer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | would · perfect · passive |  | Fionn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **practise** | past | Fionn |  |  | a nettle |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | Fionn *not said here* | the head |  | Goll |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off goll=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **hunt** | past | Fionn | a sheep |  | cover |  | in the implacable manner | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme in manner=Location |
| 6 | **intend** | past | Fionn |  |  | Cona’n |  | late *property* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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