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title: But he was as fitted for loneliness as the crane is that haunts the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But he was as fitted for loneliness as the crane is that haunts the solitudes and bleak wastes of the sea; for the man with a thought has a comrade, and Fionn’s mind worked as featly as his body did. Who acts: man, mind, body, Fionn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII,
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 2

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But he was as fitted for loneliness as the crane is that haunts the solitudes and bleak wastes of the sea; for the man with a thought has a comrade, and Fionn’s mind worked as featly as his body did.

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**Who acts:** man, mind, body, Fionn · **What happens:** fit, be, have, work, do, mind · **To what, where:** Fionn, comrade

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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 (man, mind, body, 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:pg2892:21:2
# text = But he was as fitted for loneliness as the crane is that haunts the solitudes and bleak wastes of the sea; for the man with a thought has a comrade, and Fionn’s mind worked as featly as his body did.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	haunts	haunt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	solitudes	solitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	bleak	bleak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wastes	waste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
38	as	as	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	featly	featly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | past · passive |  | Fionn |  |  |  | for loneliness; as the crane | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | haunt *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | the man with a thought | a comrade |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Patient |
| 4 | **work** | past | Fionn's mind |  |  |  |  | featly *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | past | Fionn's body |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **mind** |  | Fionn |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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