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title: A monstrous fleet rounded the bluffs of Ben Edair, and the Danes lan… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A monstrous fleet rounded the bluffs of Ben Edair, and the Danes landed there, to prepare an attack which would render them masters of the country. Who acts: monstrous fleet, Danes, attack. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 2

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A monstrous fleet rounded the bluffs of Ben Edair, and the Danes landed there, to prepare an attack which would render them masters of the country.

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**Who acts:** monstrous fleet, Danes, attack · **What happens:** round, land, prepare, render · **To what, where:** bluffs, attack, Danes

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monstrous fleet, Danes, attack), 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:pg2892:35:2
# text = A monstrous fleet rounded the bluffs of Ben Edair, and the Danes landed there, to prepare an attack which would render them masters of the country.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rounded	round	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bluffs	bluff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	Edair	Edair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Danes	Dane	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **round** | past | a monstrous fleet | the bluffs of Ben |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bluff=Patient |
| 2 | **land** | past | the Danes |  |  | there |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **prepare** | to-infinitive | the Danes *not said here* | a attack |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Patient |
| 4 | **render** | would | a attack | Danes *= dane* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient master=Theme |

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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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