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title: The king wished to see him, and Fionn must have wondered what the ki… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The king wished to see him, and Fionn must have wondered what the king thought as that gracious lord looked on him. Who acts: king. 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 29

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The king wished to see him, and Fionn must have wondered what the king thought as that gracious lord looked on him.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** wish, see, wonder, think, look · **To what, where:** King, Fionn · **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 (king), 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:pg2892:21:29
# text = The king wished to see him, and Fionn must have wondered what the king thought as that gracious lord looked on him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | must · perfect · passive |  | Fionn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | participle |  | the king *not said here* |  |  |  | as that gracious lord | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | on Fionn | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute |

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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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