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title: “I will be frightened of nothing,” said Fionn, “and the only person… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will be frightened of nothing,” said Fionn, “and the only person I will be sorry for is that Aillen mac Midna, who is going to get his own spear back.” Who acts: Fionn, only person, Aillen mac. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 54

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“I will be frightened of nothing,” said Fionn, “and the only person I will be sorry for is that Aillen mac Midna, who is going to get his own spear back.”

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**Who acts:** Fionn, only person, Aillen mac · **What happens:** frighten, say, be, go, get · **To what, where:** Fionn, own spear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fionn, only person, Aillen mac), 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:pg2892:26:54
# text = “I will be frightened of nothing,” said Fionn, “and the only person I will be sorry for is that Aillen mac Midna, who is going to get his own spear back.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	Midna	Midna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | Fionn |  |  |  | of nothing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the only person |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Aillen mac |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Aillen mac *not said here* | Fionn's own spear |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spear=Stimulus |

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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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