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title: The thorn that went into Bran’s foot ran into Fionn’s also. — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The thorn that went into Bran’s foot ran into Fionn’s also. Who acts: thorn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 13

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The thorn that went into Bran’s foot ran into Fionn’s also.

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**Who acts:** thorn · **What happens:** go, run · **To what, where:** foot, Fionn

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thorn), 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:pg2892:38:13
# text = The thorn that went into Bran’s foot ran into Fionn’s also.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Bran	Bran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the thorn |  |  | Bran's foot |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into foot=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **run** | past | the thorn |  |  |  |  | into Fionn *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fionn=Result |

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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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