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title: They told Fionn he must sleep in a tree that night, and they put him… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They told Fionn he must sleep in a tree that night, and they put him under bonds not to sing or whistle or cough or sneeze until the morning. Who acts: women, Fionn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 11

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They told Fionn he must sleep in a tree that night, and they put him under bonds not to sing or whistle or cough or sneeze until the morning.

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**Who acts:** women, Fionn · **What happens:** tell, sleep, put, not sing, whistle, cough · **To what, where:** Fionn, tree, bonds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, 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:pg2892:18:11
# text = They told Fionn he must sleep in a tree that night, and they put him under bonds not to sing or whistle or cough or sneeze until the morning.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bonds	bond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	whistle	whistle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	cough	cough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	until	until	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | women *= woman* |  | Fionn |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent fionn=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sleep** | must | Fionn |  |  | a tree  that night |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location |
| 3 | **put** | past | women *= woman* | Fionn |  | bonds |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme under bond=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | women *= woman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **whistle** | infinitive | women *= woman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **cough** | infinitive | women *= woman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sneeze** | infinitive | women *= woman* *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: 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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