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title: Among the young princes of his household there was one, Crimthann, s… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the young princes of his household there was one, Crimthann, son of Ae, King of Leinster, whom the High King preferred to the others over whom he held fatherly sway. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 7

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Among the young princes of his household there was one, Crimthann, son of Ae, King of Leinster, whom the High King preferred to the others over whom he held fatherly sway.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** prefer, hold · **To what, where:** Crimthann, fatherly sway

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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 (King), 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:pg2892:40:7
# text = Among the young princes of his household there was one, Crimthann, son of Ae, King of Leinster, whom the High King preferred to the others over whom he held fatherly sway.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Crimthann	Crimthann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ae	Ae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	fatherly	fatherly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	sway	sway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prefer** | participle · passive |  | Crimthann |  |  |  | to the others | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hold** | past | King | fatherly sway |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sway=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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