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title: Fionn loved a chase at any hour, and, with Bran and Sceo’lan, he out… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fionn loved a chase at any hour, and, with Bran and Sceo’lan, he outstripped the men and dogs of his troop, until nothing remained in the limpid world but Fionn, the two hounds, and the nimble, beautiful fawn. Who acts: Fionn, chase. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, wi
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 5

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Fionn loved a chase at any hour, and, with Bran and Sceo’lan, he outstripped the men and dogs of his troop, until nothing remained in the limpid world but Fionn, the two hounds, and the nimble, beautiful fawn.

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**Who acts:** Fionn, chase · **What happens:** love, outstrip, remain · **To what, where:** chase, men, limpid world

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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, chase), 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:pg2892:33:5
# text = Fionn loved a chase at any hour, and, with Bran and Sceo’lan, he outstripped the men and dogs of his troop, until nothing remained in the limpid world but Fionn, the two hounds, and the nimble, beautiful fawn.
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loved	love	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	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Bran	Bran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Sceo’lan	Sceo'lan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	outstripped	outstrip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	until	until	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	parataxis	_	_
28	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	limpid	limpid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
42	nimble	nimble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
44	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Fionn | a chase |  |  | hour |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chase=Stimulus |
| 2 | **outstrip** | past | chase | the men and dogs of chase's troop |  |  |  | with Bran and Sceo’lan; the nimble beautiful fawn *obl* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme |
| 3 | **remain** | participle |  |  |  | the limpid world |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=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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