--- title: Chapter VI — Irish Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: Chapter VI, «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: It would be hard to tell of the terror that was in Fionn’s breast and in the hearts of the Fianna while they attended the conclusion of that race. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / Chapter VI # Chapter VI Chapter VI of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens: the whole text, 36 sentences and 440 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/1/) — It would be hard to tell of the terror that was in Fionn’s breast and in the hearts of the Fianna while they attended the conclusion of that race. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/2/) — They discussed it unendingly, and at some moment of the day a man upbraided Fionn because he had not found Caelte the son of Rona’n as had been agreed on. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/3/) — “There is no one can run like Caelte,” one man averred. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/4/) — “He covers the ground,” said another. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/5/) — “He is light as a feather.” - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/6/) — “Swift as a stag.” - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/7/) — “Lunged like a bull.” - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/8/) — “Legged like a wolf.” - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/9/) — “He runs!” - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/10/) — These things were said to Fionn, and Fionn said these things to himself. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/11/) — With every passing minute a drop of lead thumped down into every heart, and a pang of despair stabbed up to every brain. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/12/) — “Go,” said Fionn to a hawk-eyed man, “go to the top of this hill and watch for the coming of the racers.” - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/13/) — And he sent lithe men with him so that they might run back in endless succession with the news. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/14/) — The messengers began to run through his tent at minute intervals calling “nothing,” “nothing,” “nothing,” as they paused and darted away. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/15/) — And the words, “nothing, nothing, nothing,” began to drowse into the brains of every person present. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/16/) — “What can we hope from that Carl?” a champion demanded savagely. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/17/) — “Nothing,” cried a messenger who stood and sped. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/18/) — “A clump!” cried a champion. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/19/) — “A hog!” said another. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/20/) — “A flat-footed.” - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/21/) — “Little-wlnded.” - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/22/) — “Big-bellied.” - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/23/) — “Lazy-boned.” - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/24/) — “Pork!” - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/25/) — “Did you think, Fionn, that a whale could swim on land, or what did you imagine that lump could do?” - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/26/) — “Nothing,” cried a messenger, and was sped as he spoke. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/27/) — Rage began to gnaw in Fionn’s soul, and a red haze danced and flickered before his eyes. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/28/) — His hands began to twitch and a desire crept over him to seize on champions by the neck, and to shake and worry and rage among them like a wild dog raging among sheep. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/29/) — He looked on one, and yet he seemed to look on all at once. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/30/) — “Be silent,” he growled. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/31/) — “Let each man be silent as a dead man.” - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/32/) — And he sat forward, seeing all, seeing none, with his mouth drooping open, and such a wildness and bristle lowering from that great glum brow that the champions shivered as though already in the chill of death, and were silent. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/33/) — He rose and stalked to the tent-door. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/34/) — “Where to, O Fionn?” said a champion humbly. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/35/) — “To the hill-top,” said Fionn, and he stalked on. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/36/) — They followed him, whispering among themselves, keeping their eyes on the ground as they climbed. - ← previous: [Chapter V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/52/) - next →: [Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/54/) - 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