--- title: Then the Fianna gave a roar of exultation, and each man seized his n… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Fianna gave a roar of exultation, and each man seized his neighbour and kissed him on both cheeks; and they gripped hands about Fionn, and they danced round and round in a great circle, roaring with laughter and relief, in the ecstasy which only comes where grisly fear has been and whence t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/54/43/) [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 VII. “What do you see?” Fionn…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/54/) / 43 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 43 Then the Fianna gave a roar of exultation, and each man seized his neighbour and kissed him on both cheeks; and they gripped hands about Fionn, and they danced round and round in a great circle, roaring with laughter and relief, in the ecstasy which only comes where grisly fear has been and whence that bony jowl has taken itself away. **Who acts:** Fianna, man, cheeks, ecstasy, exultation · **What happens:** give, seize, kiss, grip, dance, roar · **To what, where:** roar, neighbour, man, cheeks, hands, great circle This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fianna, man, cheeks, ecstasy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:54:43 # text = Then the Fianna gave a roar of exultation, and each man seized his neighbour and kissed him on both cheeks; and they gripped hands about Fionn, and they danced round and round in a great circle, roaring with laughter and relief, in the ecstasy which only comes where grisly fear has been and whence that bony jowl has taken itself away. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Fianna Fianna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 roar roar NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 exultation exultation NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 gripped grip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 33 round round ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 round round ADV RB _ 33 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 roaring roar VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 relief relief NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 ecstasy ecstasy NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 50 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 52 nsubj _ _ 51 only only ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 acl:relcl _ _ 53 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 64 advmod _ _ 54 grisly grisly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nsubj _ _ 56 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 64 aux _ _ 57 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 64 aux:pass _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 59 whence whence ADV WRB PronType=Int 64 advmod _ _ 60 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 62 det _ _ 61 bony bony ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 jowl jowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nsubj:pass _ _ 63 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 64 aux _ _ 64 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 52 advcl _ _ 65 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 64 obj _ _ 66 away away ADV RB _ 64 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | the Fianna | a roar of exultation | | | then | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme | | 2 | **seize** | past | each man | man's neighbour | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Theme | | 3 | **kiss** | past | each man *not said here* | man | | both cheeks | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 4 | **grip** | past | cheeks *= cheek* | hands | | | | about Fionn | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Experiencer | | 5 | **dance** | past | cheeks *= cheek* | | | a great circle | | round *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Location | | 6 | **roar** | gerund | cheeks *= cheek* *not said here* | | | the ecstasy | | with laughter and relief | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ecstasy=Location | | 7 | **come** | present | the ecstasy | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **take away** | present · perfect · passive | | grisly fear | | | | away, whence *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **roar** | | exultation | | | | | | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/54/42/) - next →: [Chapter VIII, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/55/1/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/54/)