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title: After no great delay Crimthann mac Ae agreed and arranged that he an… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After no great delay Crimthann mac Ae agreed and arranged that he and Becfola should fly from Tara, and it was part of their understanding that they should live happily ever after. Who acts: Crimthann mac, mac, terror, Becfola. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with it
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 9

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After no great delay Crimthann mac Ae agreed and arranged that he and Becfola should fly from Tara, and it was part of their understanding that they should live happily ever after.

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**Who acts:** Crimthann mac, mac, terror, Becfola · **What happens:** agree, arrange, fly, be, live, understand · **To what, where:** Tara, part, understanding

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crimthann mac, mac, terror, Becfola), 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:pg2892:41:9
# text = After no great delay Crimthann mac Ae agreed and arranged that he and Becfola should fly from Tara, and it was part of their understanding that they should live happily ever after.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	Crimthann	Crimthann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Ae	Ae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
31	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	advmod	_	_
33	after	after	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Crimthann mac |  |  |  | after no great delay |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **arrange** | past | Crimthann mac *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fly** | should | mac |  |  | Tara |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tara=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is a** | past | terror | part |  |  |  | of Becfola's understanding | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | should | Becfola | Becfola's understanding *not said here* |  |  |  | after, happily *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme understanding=Location |
| 6 | **understand** |  | Becfola |  |  |  |  |  | nom understanding «cognition transitive»: poss=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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