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title: One can imagine the surprise of Aillen mac Midna, seeing his fire ca… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One can imagine the surprise of Aillen mac Midna, seeing his fire caught and quenched by an invisible hand. Who acts: One, fire, mac. 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 18

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One can imagine the surprise of Aillen mac Midna, seeing his fire caught and quenched by an invisible hand.

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**Who acts:** One, fire, mac · **What happens:** imagine, see, catch, quench, surprise, fire · **To what, where:** surprise, fire, Aillen mac

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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 (One, fire, 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:pg2892:27:18
# text = One can imagine the surprise of Aillen mac Midna, seeing his fire caught and quenched by an invisible hand.
1	One	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	Midna	Midna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	quenched	quench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | can | One | the surprise of Aillen mac |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot surprise=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | One *not said here* | mac's fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | participle | mac's fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **quench** | participle | mac's fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a invisible hand | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **surprise** |  |  | Aillen mac |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **fire** |  | mac |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «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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