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title: “I lived thus in the peace of Faery, hearing often of my mortal cham… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I lived thus in the peace of Faery, hearing often of my mortal champion, for the rumour of his great deeds had gone through the Shi’, until a day came when the Black Magician of the Men of God put his eye on me, and, after that day, in whatever direction I looked I saw his eye.” Who acts: Fionn, ru
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 33

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“I lived thus in the peace of Faery, hearing often of my mortal champion, for the rumour of his great deeds had gone through the Shi’, until a day came when the Black Magician of the Men of God put his eye on me, and, after that day, in whatever direction I looked I saw his eye.”

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**Who acts:** Fionn, rumour, day, Black Magician, great deeds · **What happens:** live, go, come, put, look, see · **To what, where:** peace, Shi, eye, direction, Faery

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, rumour, day, Black Magician), 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:pg2892:34:33
# text = “I lived thus in the peace of Faery, hearing often of my mortal champion, for the rumour of his great deeds had gone through the Shi’, until a day came when the Black Magician of the Men of God put his eye on me, and, after that day, in whatever direction I looked I saw his eye.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Faery	faery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rumour	rumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Magician	Magician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	after	after	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	55	det	_	_
55	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	59	det	_	_
59	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	appos	_	_
60	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	acl:relcl	_	_
62	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
63	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
64	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** *in a quote* | past | Fionn |  |  | the peace of Faery and hearing |  | of my mortal champion; thus *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the rumour of rumour's great deeds |  |  | the Shi |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through shi=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | past | a day |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **put** *in a quote* | past | the Black Magician of the Men of God | Man's eye |  |  |  | on Fionn | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on i=Destination |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | past | Fionn | whatever direction *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme direction=Attribute |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | past | Fionn | Man's eye |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus |
| 7 | **pacify** *in a quote* |  |  | Faery |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **rumour** *in a quote* |  | rumour's great deeds |  |  |  |  |  | nom rumour «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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