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title: Fionn was a woodsman, but he had only two eyes to look with, one set… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fionn was a woodsman, but he had only two eyes to look with, one set of feet to carry him in one sole direction. Who acts: Fionn. 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 35

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Fionn was a woodsman, but he had only two eyes to look with, one set of feet to carry him in one sole direction.

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**Who acts:** Fionn · **What happens:** be, have, look, carry · **To what, where:** woodsman, two eyes, Fionn, one sole direction

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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), 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:pg2892:20:35
# text = Fionn was a woodsman, but he had only two eyes to look with, one set of feet to carry him in one sole direction.
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woodsman	woodsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
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=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Fionn | a woodsman and one set of feet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Fionn | two eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | Fionn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Fionn *not said here* | Fionn |  | one sole direction |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in direction=Location |

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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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