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title: Fionn, thus pressed, told of the coming of Cael of the Iron, of the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fionn, thus pressed, told of the coming of Cael of the Iron, of the challenge the latter had issued, and that he, Fionn, was off to Tara of the Kings to find Caelte mac Rona’n. Who acts: challenge. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 13

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Fionn, thus pressed, told of the coming of Cael of the Iron, of the challenge the latter had issued, and that he, Fionn, was off to Tara of the Kings to find Caelte mac Rona’n.

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**Who acts:** challenge · **What happens:** press, tell, come, issue, be, find · **To what, where:** Fionn, latter, Caelte mac · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (challenge), 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:pg2892:49:13
# text = Fionn, thus pressed, told of the coming of Cael of the Iron, of the challenge the latter had issued, and that he, Fionn, was off to Tara of the Kings to find Caelte mac Rona’n.
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
9	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Cael	Cael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	latter	latter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	that	that	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Kings	King	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
39	Caelte	Caelte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	mac	mac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	Rona’n	Rona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | participle · passive |  | Fionn |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of the challenge | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of Cael of the Iron | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of cael=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **issue** | past · perfect · passive | the challenge *not said here* | the latter |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to Tara; of the Kings | tree rules |
| 6 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | Caelte mac |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mac=Topic |

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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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