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title: His pipe had been played and his timpan, all who heard that music sh… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His pipe had been played and his timpan, all who heard that music should be asleep, and yet his fire was caught in full course and was quenched. Who acts: music, Fire. 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 21

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His pipe had been played and his timpan, all who heard that music should be asleep, and yet his fire was caught in full course and was quenched.

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**Who acts:** music, Fire · **What happens:** play, hear, be, catch, quench, fire · **To what, where:** pipe, fire, full course

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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 (music, Fire), 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:pg2892:27:21
# text = His pipe had been played and his timpan, all who heard that music should be asleep, and yet his fire was caught in full course and was quenched.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	timpan	timpan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	quenched	quench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past · perfect · passive |  | Fire's pipe |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | should | music |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **catch** | past · passive |  | Fire's fire |  | full course | yet |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **quench** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 6 | **fire** |  | Fire |  |  |  |  |  | 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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