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title: Fionn’s way of discovering whatever was happening and hidden was alw… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fionn’s way of discovering whatever was happening and hidden was always the same and is many times referred to. Who acts: way, whatever. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 30

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Fionn’s way of discovering whatever was happening and hidden was always the same and is many times referred to.

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**Who acts:** way, whatever · **What happens:** discover, happen, hide, be, refer · **To what, where:** many times

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, whatever), 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:pg2892:25:30
# text = Fionn’s way of discovering whatever was happening and hidden was always the same and is many times referred to.
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	discovering	discover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | gerund | Fionn's way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** | past · progressive | whatever |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | participle | Fionn's way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | Fionn's way |  |  |  |  | always, same *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **refer** | present · passive |  | many times |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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