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title: Fionn put a finger into the thong of the great spear, and at that ca… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fionn put a finger into the thong of the great spear, and at that cast night fell on Aillen mac Midna. Who acts: 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 28

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Fionn put a finger into the thong of the great spear, and at that cast night fell on Aillen mac Midna.

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**Who acts:** Fionn · **What happens:** put, fall · **To what, where:** finger, thong, 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 (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:pg2892:27:28
# text = Fionn put a finger into the thong of the great spear, and at that cast night fell on Aillen mac Midna.
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	thong	thong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	Midna	Midna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Fionn | a finger |  | the thong of the great spear |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Fionn *not said here* |  |  | Aillen mac | night |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on mac=Location |

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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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