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title: In his wildest moment Fionn was thoughtful, and now, although runnin… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In his wildest moment Fionn was thoughtful, and now, although running hard, he was thoughtful. Who acts: Fionn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 7

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In his wildest moment Fionn was thoughtful, and now, although running hard, he was thoughtful.

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**Who acts:** Fionn · **What happens:** be, run

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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), 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:pg2892:33:7
# text = In his wildest moment Fionn was thoughtful, and now, although running hard, he was thoughtful.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wildest	wild	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
14	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Fionn |  |  |  | moment | thoughtful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | Fionn *not said here* |  |  |  | now | hard *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  | thoughtful *property* | 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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