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title: They would know tags of rhyme and tricks about learning which Fionn… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They would know tags of rhyme and tricks about learning which Fionn would hear of; and now and again, as they rested in a glade or by the brink of a river, they might try their lessons over. Who acts: poets, tricks. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 4

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They would know tags of rhyme and tricks about learning which Fionn would hear of; and now and again, as they rested in a glade or by the brink of a river, they might try their lessons over.

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**Who acts:** poets, tricks · **What happens:** know, learn, hear, rest, try over, tag · **To what, where:** tags, glade, lessons, rhyme · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poets, tricks), 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:pg2892:19:4
# text = They would know tags of rhyme and tricks about learning which Fionn would hear of; and now and again, as they rested in a glade or by the brink of a river, they might try their lessons over.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	tags	tag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	glade	glade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	over	over	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | would | poets *= poet* | tags of rhyme and tricks |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tag=Stimulus |
| 2 | **learn** | gerund | tricks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hear** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **rest** | past | poets *= poet* |  |  | a glade or the brink of a river |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in glade=Location |
| 5 | **try over** | might | poets *= poet* | poets's lessons |  |  |  | over *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality |
| 6 | **tag** |  |  | rhyme and tricks |  |  |  |  | nom tag «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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