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title: “I will look myself,” said Fionn, and his great brow bent forward an… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will look myself,” said Fionn, and his great brow bent forward and gloomed afar. Who acts: Fionn, great brow. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 6

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“I will look myself,” said Fionn, and his great brow bent forward and gloomed afar.

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**Who acts:** Fionn, great brow · **What happens:** look, say, bend, gloom · **To what, where:** Fionn, afar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fionn, great brow), 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:pg2892:54:6
# text = “I will look myself,” said Fionn, and his great brow bent forward and gloomed afar.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
5	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
16	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	gloomed	gloom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
19	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | future | Fionn | Fionn |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme myself=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bend** | participle | Fionn's great brow |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gloom** | participle | Fionn's great brow *not said here* | afar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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