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title: Dermod mac Ae delighted in these solitary adventures, and when he co… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dermod mac Ae delighted in these solitary adventures, and when he could steal a day from policy and affairs he would send word privily to Crimthann. Who acts: Dermod. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 10

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Dermod mac Ae delighted in these solitary adventures, and when he could steal a day from policy and affairs he would send word privily to Crimthann.

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**Who acts:** Dermod · **What happens:** steal, send · **To what, where:** policy, word

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dermod), 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:pg2892:40:10
# text = Dermod mac Ae delighted in these solitary adventures, and when he could steal a day from policy and affairs he would send word privily to Crimthann.
1	Dermod	Dermod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Ae	Ae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	privily	privily	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Crimthann	Crimthann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | could | Dermod |  |  | policy and affairs | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | would | Dermod | word |  |  |  | privily *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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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