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title: In course of time the news came to Fionn that his mother’s sister wa… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In course of time the news came to Fionn that his mother’s sister was not living with Iollan. Who acts: news, sister. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 1

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In course of time the news came to Fionn that his mother’s sister was not living with Iollan.

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**Who acts:** news, sister · **What happens:** come, not live · **To what, where:** Fionn

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, sister), 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:pg2892:32:1
# text = In course of time the news came to Fionn that his mother’s sister was not living with Iollan.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Iollan	Iollan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the news |  |  | Fionn | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fionn=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **live** | past · progressive | news's mother's sister |  |  |  |  | with Iollan | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with iollan=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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