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title: Here it would seem that Fionn used magic, for spreading out his frin… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here it would seem that Fionn used magic, for spreading out his fringed mantle he caught the flame. Who acts: it, Fionn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 16

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Here it would seem that Fionn used magic, for spreading out his fringed mantle he caught the flame.

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**Who acts:** it, Fionn · **What happens:** seem, use, spread out, fringe, catch · **To what, where:** magic, fringed mantle, flame

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Fionn), 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:pg2892:27:16
# text = Here it would seem that Fionn used magic, for spreading out his fringed mantle he caught the flame.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fringed	fringe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | would | it |  |  | here |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **use** | past | Fionn | magic |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Patient |
| 3 | **spread out** | gerund | Fionn *not said here* | Fionn's fringed mantle |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mantle=Theme |
| 4 | **fringe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **catch** | past | Fionn | the flame |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=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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