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title: The boy, having donned his hunting gear, would join the king at a pl… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy, having donned his hunting gear, would join the king at a place arranged between them, and then they ranged abroad as chance might direct. Who acts: boy, affairs, chance. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 11

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The boy, having donned his hunting gear, would join the king at a place arranged between them, and then they ranged abroad as chance might direct.

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**Who acts:** boy, affairs, chance · **What happens:** don, join, arrange, range, direct · **To what, where:** hunting gear, king, place

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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 (boy, affairs, chance), 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:pg2892:40:11
# text = The boy, having donned his hunting gear, would join the king at a place arranged between them, and then they ranged abroad as chance might direct.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	donned	don	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	gear	gear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ranged	range	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
25	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	direct	direct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **don** | gerund · perfect | the boy *not said here* | boy's hunting gear |  |  |  |  | vn simple\_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gear=Theme |
| 2 | **join** | would | the boy | the king |  | a place |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
| 3 | **arrange** | participle |  | a place *not said here* |  |  |  | between affairs *= affair* | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between they=Destination |
| 4 | **range** | past | affairs *= affair* |  |  |  | then | abroad *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **direct** | might | chance |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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