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title: They fed the man, and during his feeding Fionn had been shooed from… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They fed the man, and during his feeding Fionn had been shooed from the door as if he were a chicken. Who acts: guardians, man. 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 3

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They fed the man, and during his feeding Fionn had been shooed from the door as if he were a chicken.

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**Who acts:** guardians, man · **What happens:** feed, shoo, be · **To what, where:** man, door

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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 (guardians, man), 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:pg2892:18:3
# text = They fed the man, and during his feeding Fionn had been shooed from the door as if he were a chicken.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	during	during	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
10	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	shooed	shoo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | guardians *= guardian* |  | the man |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 2 | **shoo** | past · perfect · passive | guardians *= guardian* *not said here* |  |  | the door | during man's feeding |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: from door=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | as a chicken | tree rules |
| 4 | **feed** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom feeding «act intransitive»: poss=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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