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title: But as to Fergus Fionnliath, he took to his bed, and he stayed there… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But as to Fergus Fionnliath, he took to his bed, and he stayed there for a year and a day suffering from blighted affection, and he would have died in the bed only that Fionn sent him a special pup, and in a week that young hound became the Star of Fortune and the very Pulse of his Heart, so that he
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 40

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But as to Fergus Fionnliath, he took to his bed, and he stayed there for a year and a day suffering from blighted affection, and he would have died in the bed only that Fionn sent him a special pup, and in a week that young hound became the Star of Fortune and the very Pulse of his Heart, so that he got well again, and he also lived happily ever after.

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**Who acts:** Lugaidh, day, Fionn, young hound · **What happens:** take, stay, suffer, blight, die, send · **To what, where:** blighted affection, special pup, Lugaidh, week, Heart

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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 (Lugaidh, day, Fionn, young hound), 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:pg2892:32:40
# text = But as to Fergus Fionnliath, he took to his bed, and he stayed there for a year and a day suffering from blighted affection, and he would have died in the bed only that Fionn sent him a special pup, and in a week that young hound became the Star of Fortune and the very Pulse of his Heart, so that he got well again, and he also lived happily ever after.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	Fionnliath	Fionnliath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	blighted	blight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux	_	_
32	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	pup	pup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
49	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	obj	_	_
50	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	xcomp	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Fortune	Fortune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	very	very	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	Pulse	pulse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	Heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
65	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	68	mark	_	_
66	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	65	fixed	_	_
67	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
68	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
69	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	68	advmod	_	_
70	again	again	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	75	punct	_	_
72	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	75	cc	_	_
73	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	75	nsubj	_	_
74	also	also	ADV	RB	_	75	advmod	_	_
75	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	68	conj	_	_
76	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	75	advmod	_	_
77	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	78	advmod	_	_
78	after	after	ADV	RB	_	75	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Lugaidh |  |  |  | week | as Fergus; to Lugaidh's bed *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result |
| 2 | **stay** | past | Lugaidh |  |  | there | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **suffer** | gerund | a day *not said here* |  |  | blighted affection |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **blight** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **die** | would · perfect | Lugaidh |  |  |  |  | in the bed | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bed=Attribute |
| 6 | **send** | past | Fionn | a special pup | Lugaidh |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination pup=Theme |
| 7 | **become** | past | young hound | a week |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient that=Result |
| 8 | **get** | past | Lugaidh |  |  |  | again | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **live** | past | Lugaidh |  |  |  |  | after, happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **pulse** |  |  | Lugaidh's Heart |  |  |  |  | nom pulse «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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