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title: In that joyous company he came to wide Allen of Leinster, where the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In that joyous company he came to wide Allen of Leinster, where the people were surprised to see the hounds and the fawn and the Chief and none other of the hunters that had set out with them. Who acts: Fionn, people. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependenc
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 40

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In that joyous company he came to wide Allen of Leinster, where the people were surprised to see the hounds and the fawn and the Chief and none other of the hunters that had set out with them.

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**Who acts:** Fionn, people · **What happens:** come, be, see, set out · **To what, where:** wide Allen, joyous company, hounds, hunters

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, people), 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:pg2892:33:40
# text = In that joyous company he came to wide Allen of Leinster, where the people were surprised to see the hounds and the fawn and the Chief and none other of the hunters that had set out with them.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Allen	Allen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	24	conj	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Fionn |  | wide Allen of Leinster | that joyous company |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to allen=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | the people |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | the hounds and the fawn and the Chief |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hound=Stimulus |
| 4 | **set out** | past · perfect · passive |  | the hunters |  |  |  | with hounds *= hound* | 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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