--- title: Chapter VII — Irish Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: Chapter VII, «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: “I used to live,” he said, “in a wide, beautiful place. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / Chapter VII # Chapter VII Chapter VII of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens: the whole text, 25 sentences and 447 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/1/) — “I used to live,” he said, “in a wide, beautiful place. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/2/) — There were hills and valleys there, and woods and streams, but in whatever direction I went I came always to a cliff, so tall it seemed to lean against the sky, and so straight that even a goat would not have imagined to climb it.” - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/3/) — “I do not know of any such place,” Fionn mused. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/4/) — “There is no such place in Ireland,” said Caelte, “but in the Shi’ there is such a place.” - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/5/) — “There is in truth,” said Fionn. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/6/) — “I used to eat fruits and roots in the summer,” the boy continued, “but in the winter food was left for me in a cave.” - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/7/) — “Was there no one with you?” - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/8/) — Fionn asked. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/9/) — “No one but a deer that loved me, and that I loved.” - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/10/) — “Ah me!” cried Fionn in anguish, “tell me your tale, my son.” - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/11/) — “A dark stern man came often after us, and he used to speak with the deer. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/12/) — Sometimes he talked gently and softly and coaxingly, but at times again he would shout loudly and in a harsh, angry voice. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/13/) — But whatever way he talked the deer would draw away from him in dread, and he always left her at last furiously.” - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/14/) — “It is the Dark Magician of the Men of God,” cried Fionn despairingly. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/15/) — “It is indeed, my soul,” said Caelte. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/16/) — “The last time I saw the deer,” the child continued, “the dark man was speaking to her. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/17/) — He spoke for a long time. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/18/) — He spoke gently and angrily, and gently and angrily, so that I thought he would never stop talking, but in the end he struck her with a hazel rod, so that she was forced to follow him when he went away. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/19/) — She was looking back at me all the time and she was crying so bitterly that any one would pity her. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/20/) — I tried to follow her also, but I could not move, and I cried after her too, with rage and grief, until I could see her no more and hear her no more. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/21/) — Then I fell on the grass, my senses went away from me, and when I awoke I was on the hill in the middle of the hounds where you found me.” - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/22/) — That was the boy whom the Fianna called Oisi’n, or the Little Fawn. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/23/) — He grew to be a great fighter afterwards, and he was the chief maker of poems in the world. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/24/) — But he was not yet finished with the Shi. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/39/25/) — He was to go back into Faery when the time came, and to come thence again to tell these tales, for it was by him these tales were told. - ← previous: [Chapter VI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/38/) - next →: [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/40/) - ↑ back to [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/)