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title: While he was swimming one remarked: “He is fair and well shaped,” an… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: While he was swimming one remarked: “He is fair and well shaped,” and thereafter he was called “Fionn” or the Fair One. Who acts: master. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 15

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While he was swimming one remarked: “He is fair and well shaped,” and thereafter he was called “Fionn” or the Fair One.

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** swim, remark, be, shape, call · **To what, where:** one, master · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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:pg2892:21:15
# text = While he was swimming one remarked: “He is fair and well shaped,” and thereafter he was called “Fionn” or the Fair One.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | past · progressive | master | one |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | master |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **shape** *in a quote* | participle | master *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **call** | past · passive |  | master |  |  |  | thereafter *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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