---
title: The most famous of men and the most beautiful; the hardest fighter;… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The most famous of men and the most beautiful; the hardest fighter; the easiest giver; the kingly champion; the chief of the Fianna na h-Eirinn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/16/15/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/16/) / 15

# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 15

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The most famous of men and the most beautiful; the hardest fighter; the easiest giver; the kingly champion; the chief of the Fianna na h-Eirinn.

<!-- .vabout -->
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2892:16:15
# text = The most famous of men and the most beautiful; the hardest fighter; the easiest giver; the kingly champion; the chief of the Fianna na h-Eirinn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	fighter	fighter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	easiest	easy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	giver	giver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	kingly	kingly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
27	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
28	na	na	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	h	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Eirinn	Eirinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/16/14/)
- next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/16/16/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/16/)