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title: All the hounds of the Fianna were out, for Fionn had now given up ho… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All the hounds of the Fianna were out, for Fionn had now given up hope of encountering the Flower of Allen. Who acts: hounds, hope. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 5

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All the hounds of the Fianna were out, for Fionn had now given up hope of encountering the Flower of Allen.

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**Who acts:** hounds, hope · **What happens:** be, give up, encounter · **To what, where:** Fionn, Flower

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hounds, hope), 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:pg2892:37:5
# text = All the hounds of the Fianna were out, for Fionn had now given up hope of encountering the Flower of Allen.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	encountering	encounter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Flower	Flower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Allen	Allen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all hounds of the Fianna |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give up** | past · perfect · passive |  | Fionn |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **encounter** | gerund | hope *not said here* | the Flower of Allen |  |  |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus |

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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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