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title: Now and again, in a lull of the discussion, a champion would look an… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 12

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Now and again, in a lull of the discussion, a champion would look and remark on the hurrying vessel; and it may have been during one of these moments that the adventure happened to Fionn and the Fianna.

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**Who acts:** champion, moments · **What happens:** look, remark, hurry, be, happen · **To what, where:** hurrying vessel, Fionn

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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 (champion, moments), 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:pg2892:48:12
# text = Now and again, in a lull of the discussion, a champion would look and remark on the hurrying vessel; and it may have been during one of these moments that the adventure happened to Fionn and the Fianna.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lull	lull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	discussion	discussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	remark	remark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
28	during	during	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | would | a champion |  |  |  | now | in a lull of the discussion | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in lull=Theme |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a champion *not said here* |  |  | the hurrying vessel |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hurry** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | may · perfect | champion |  |  |  | during one; moment |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **happen** | past | this moments |  | Fionn and the Fianna |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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