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title: How he shaped? what muscles he had? and did he spring clean from the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: How he shaped? what muscles he had? and did he spring clean from the mark or had he to get off with a push? Who acts: Fionn, muscles. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 24

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How he shaped? what muscles he had? and did he spring clean from the mark or had he to get off with a push?

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**Who acts:** Fionn, muscles · **What happens:** shape, have, spring, get off · **To what, where:** mark, Fionn

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, muscles), 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:pg2892:20:24
# text = How he shaped? what muscles he had? and did he spring clean from the mark or had he to get off with a push?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shaped	shape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shape** | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Product |
| 2 | **have** | past | muscles |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spring** | past · do-support | Fionn |  |  | the mark |  | clean *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mark=Trajectory |
| 4 | **have** | past | Fionn *not said here* | Fionn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get off** | to-infinitive | Fionn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a push | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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