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title: He loved “what happened,” and would not evade it by the swerve of a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He loved “what happened,” and would not evade it by the swerve of a hair; so on this occasion what was occurring he would have occur, although a king was his rival and his master. Who acts: Fionn, occasion, king, hair. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its depen
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 48

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He loved “what happened,” and would not evade it by the swerve of a hair; so on this occasion what was occurring he would have occur, although a king was his rival and his master.

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**Who acts:** Fionn, occasion, king, hair · **What happens:** love, happen, not evade, occur, have, be · **To what, where:** chief, occur, occasion, rival · **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 (Fionn, occasion, king, hair), 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:pg2892:21:48
# text = He loved “what happened,” and would not evade it by the swerve of a hair; so on this occasion what was occurring he would have occur, although a king was his rival and his master.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	evade	evade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	swerve	swerve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	occurring	occur	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
30	occur	occur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **happen** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **evade** | would | Fionn *not said here* | chief |  |  |  | by the swerve of a hair | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |
| 4 | **occur** | past · progressive | this occasion |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | would | Fionn | occur |  | this occasion |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occur=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | past | a king | Fionn's rival and Fionn's master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **swerve** |  | a hair |  |  |  |  |  | nom swerve «act intransitive»: of=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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