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title: They thrashed the pack severally and collectively until every hound… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They thrashed the pack severally and collectively until every hound in Fionn’s kennels knew that the little lad was their master, and that there was nothing in the world so sacred as he was. Who acts: Bran, kennels, little lad, pack. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, w
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 6

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They thrashed the pack severally and collectively until every hound in Fionn’s kennels knew that the little lad was their master, and that there was nothing in the world so sacred as he was.

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**Who acts:** Bran, kennels, little lad, pack · **What happens:** thrash, know, be · **To what, where:** pack, master · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bran, kennels, little lad, pack), 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:pg2892:38:6
# text = They thrashed the pack severally and collectively until every hound in Fionn’s kennels knew that the little lad was their master, and that there was nothing in the world so sacred as he was.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thrashed	thrash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	severally	severally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	collectively	collectively	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
14	kennels	kennel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	nsubj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thrash** | past | Bran | the pack |  |  |  | severally *property* | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | past | every hound in Fionn's kennels |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the little lad | Bran's master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | sacred *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** | past | pack |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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