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title: “Ah, my pulse and heart!” cried Fionn, and he strode a few paces to… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ah, my pulse and heart!” cried Fionn, and he strode a few paces to meet the great robber who had fostered him among the marshes. Who acts: pulse, Fionn, great robber, my. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 18

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“Ah, my pulse and heart!” cried Fionn, and he strode a few paces to meet the great robber who had fostered him among the marshes.

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**Who acts:** pulse, Fionn, great robber, my · **What happens:** cry, stride, meet, foster, pulse · **To what, where:** Fionn, few paces, great robber

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pulse, Fionn, great robber, my), 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:pg2892:26:18
# text = “Ah, my pulse and heart!” cried Fionn, and he strode a few paces to meet the great robber who had fostered him among the marshes.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pulse	pulse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	paces	pace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	fostered	foster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	among	among	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | my pulse and heart | Fionn |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fionn=Topic |
| 2 | **stride** | past | Fionn | a few paces |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pace=Trajectory |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Fionn *not said here* | the great robber |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **foster** | past · perfect | the great robber | Fionn |  |  |  | among the marshes | tree rules |
| 5 | **pulse** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom pulse «event 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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