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title: It was wonderful, then, that Fionn should have remembered all that h… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was wonderful, then, that Fionn should have remembered all that happened to him in that wide-spun moment, but in this tale there is yet more to marvel at; for not only did Fionn go to Faery, but the great army which he had marshalled to Ben Edair [The Hill of Howth] were translated also, and neit
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 6

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It was wonderful, then, that Fionn should have remembered all that happened to him in that wide-spun moment, but in this tale there is yet more to marvel at; for not only did Fionn go to Faery, but the great army which he had marshalled to Ben Edair \[The Hill of Howth\] were translated also, and neither he nor they were aware that they had departed from the world until they came back to it.

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**Who acts:** memory, Fionn, that, more, Edair, people · **What happens:** be, remember, happen, spin, marvel, not go · **To what, where:** Fionn, tale, Faery, great army, Ben Edair, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (memory, Fionn, that, more), 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:pg2892:48:6
# text = It was wonderful, then, that Fionn should have remembered all that happened to him in that wide-spun moment, but in this tale there is yet more to marvel at; for not only did Fionn go to Faery, but the great army which he had marshalled to Ben Edair [The Hill of Howth] were translated also, and neither he nor they were aware that they had departed from the world until they came back to it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
19	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	nsubj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	marvel	marvel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Faery	Faery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
45	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	marshalled	marshall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	63	advcl	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	flat	_	_
55	Edair	Edair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	appos	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	Howth	Howth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	58	punct	_	_
62	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux:pass	_	_
63	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
64	also	also	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	72	cc	_	_
67	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	72	advmod	_	_
68	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	72	nsubj	_	_
69	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	72	cc	_	_
70	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	72	nsubj	_	_
71	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	72	cop	_	_
72	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
73	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	76	mark	_	_
74	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	76	nsubj	_	_
75	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	76	aux	_	_
76	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	72	advcl	_	_
77	from	from	ADP	IN	_	79	case	_	_
78	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	79	det	_	_
79	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	obl	_	_
80	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	82	mark	_	_
81	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	82	nsubj	_	_
82	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	76	advcl	_	_
83	back	back	ADV	RB	_	82	advmod	_	_
84	to	to	ADP	IN	_	85	case	_	_
85	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	83	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
86	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | memory |  |  |  | then | wonderful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | should · perfect | Fionn |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** | past | that |  | Fionn |  | moment |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **spin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | present | more |  |  | this tale; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tale=Location |
| 6 | **marvel** | to-infinitive | more *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **not** **go** | past · do-support | Fionn |  |  | Faery |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to faery=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **marshall** | past · perfect · passive |  | the great army |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **translate** | past · passive |  | Ben Edair |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 10 | **is** | past | Edair |  |  |  |  | aware, neither *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **depart** | past · perfect | people |  |  | the world |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from world=Initial\_Location |
| 12 | **come back** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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