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title: She clasped a chain about the hound’s neck, and they set off westwar… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She clasped a chain about the hound’s neck, and they set off westward towards the house of Fergus Fionnliath, who was reputed to be the unfriendliest man in the world to a dog. Who acts: Uct, eyes. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 46

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She clasped a chain about the hound’s neck, and they set off westward towards the house of Fergus Fionnliath, who was reputed to be the unfriendliest man in the world to a dog.

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**Who acts:** Uct, eyes · **What happens:** clasp, set off, repute, be · **To what, where:** chain, house, unfriendliest man, world

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uct, eyes), 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:pg2892:29:46
# text = She clasped a chain about the hound’s neck, and they set off westward towards the house of Fergus Fionnliath, who was reputed to be the unfriendliest man in the world to a dog.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	clasped	clasp	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	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	westward	westward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Fionnliath	Fionnliath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	reputed	repute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	unfriendliest	unfriendly	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	advcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clasp** | past | Uct | a chain |  |  |  | about the hound's neck | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme |
| 2 | **set off** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  | the house of Fergus |  | westward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **repute** | past · passive |  | the house of Fergus |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the unfriendliest man |  | the world |  | to a dog | tree rules |

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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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