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title: These, to Fionn, new come from leaves and shadows and the dipple and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: These, to Fionn, new come from leaves and shadows and the dipple and dapple of a wood, would have seemed wonderful; and the tales they would have told of their masters, their looks, fads, severities, sillinesses, would have been wonderful also. Who acts: new, tales. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales»
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 9

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These, to Fionn, new come from leaves and shadows and the dipple and dapple of a wood, would have seemed wonderful; and the tales they would have told of their masters, their looks, fads, severities, sillinesses, would have been wonderful also.

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**Who acts:** new, tales · **What happens:** come, have, seem, tell, be · **To what, where:** leaves, tales · **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 (new, tales), 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:pg2892:19:9
# text = These, to Fionn, new come from leaves and shadows and the dipple and dapple of a wood, would have seemed wonderful; and the tales they would have told of their masters, their looks, fads, severities, sillinesses, would have been wonderful also.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dipple	dipple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dapple	dapple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
23	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
24	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux	_	_
32	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	fads	fad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	severities	severity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	sillinesses	silliness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
46	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
47	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux	_	_
48	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	cop	_	_
49	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
50	also	also	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | new |  |  | leaves and shadows and the dipple and dapple of a wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from leaf=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | would | new *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | past | new *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would · perfect · passive | the tales and tales's looks and fads and severities and sillinesses *not said here* | tales *= tale* |  |  |  | of tales's masters | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | would · perfect | the tales and tales's looks and fads and severities and sillinesses |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | tree rules |

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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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