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title: He went thence to Lock Le’in and took service with the King of Finnt… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He went thence to Lock Le’in and took service with the King of Finntraigh. Who acts: Fionn. 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 22

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He went thence to Lock Le’in and took service with the King of Finntraigh.

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**Who acts:** Fionn · **What happens:** go, lock, take · **To what, where:** Le’in, service

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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 (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:pg2892:21:22
# text = He went thence to Lock Le’in and took service with the King of Finntraigh.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	Lock	lock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	Le’in	Le'in	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Finntraigh	Finntraigh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lock** | to-infinitive | Fionn *not said here* | Le’in |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent le'in=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | past | Fionn *not said here* | service |  |  |  | with the King of Finntraigh | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme |

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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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