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title: Below and around on every side the Fianna were beating the coverts i… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Below and around on every side the Fianna were beating the coverts in Legney and Brefny, ranging the fastnesses of Glen Dallan, creeping in the nut and beech forests of Carbury, spying among the woods of Kyle Conor, and ranging the wide plain of Moy Conal. Who acts: Fianna. A sentence of «Irish Fair
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 10

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Below and around on every side the Fianna were beating the coverts in Legney and Brefny, ranging the fastnesses of Glen Dallan, creeping in the nut and beech forests of Carbury, spying among the woods of Kyle Conor, and ranging the wide plain of Moy Conal.

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**Who acts:** Fianna · **What happens:** beat, range, creep, spy · **To what, where:** coverts, fastnesses, nut, wide plain

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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 (Fianna), 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:pg2892:56:10
# text = Below and around on every side the Fianna were beating the coverts in Legney and Brefny, ranging the fastnesses of Glen Dallan, creeping in the nut and beech forests of Carbury, spying among the woods of Kyle Conor, and ranging the wide plain of Moy Conal.
1	Below	below	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	around	around	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	coverts	covert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Legney	Legney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Brefny	Brefny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	ranging	range	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fastnesses	fastness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Glen	Glen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	Dallan	Dallan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	beech	beech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Carbury	Carbury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	spying	spy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
36	among	among	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Kyle	Kyle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	ranging	range	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	Moy	Moy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	Conal	Conal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | past · progressive | the Fianna | the coverts |  |  |  | in Legney and Brefny | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent covert=Patient in legney=Topic |
| 2 | **range** | gerund | the Fianna *not said here* | the fastnesses of Glen |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fastness=Theme |
| 3 | **creep** | gerund | the Fianna *not said here* |  |  | the nut and beech forests of Carbury |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nut=Trajectory |
| 4 | **spy** | gerund | the Fianna *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the woods of Kyle | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **range** | gerund | the Fianna *not said here* | the wide plain of Moy |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plain=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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