--- title: They did not complain of this, for they loved every hair of Fionn’s… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They did not complain of this, for they loved every hair of Fionn’s head more than they loved their wives and children, and that was reasonable for there was never in the world a person more worthy of love than Fionn was. Who acts: abysses, that, person. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James St --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/56/5/) [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 I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/56/) / 5 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 5 They did not complain of this, for they loved every hair of Fionn’s head more than they loved their wives and children, and that was reasonable for there was never in the world a person more worthy of love than Fionn was. **Who acts:** abysses, that, person · **What happens:** not complain, love, be, not be · **To what, where:** hair, wives, world 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 (abysses, that, person), 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:pg2892:56:5 # text = They did not complain of this, for they loved every hair of Fionn’s head more than they loved their wives and children, and that was reasonable for there was never in the world a person more worthy of love than Fionn was. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 complain complain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’s 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 18 than than SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 wives wife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 reasonable reasonable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 30 for for SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 32 expl _ _ 32 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 39 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 40 advmod _ _ 40 worthy worthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 than than ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 Fionn Fionn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 45 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **complain** *speech: other* | past · do-support | abysses *= abyss* | | | | | of this | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **love** | past | abysses *= abyss* | every hair of Fionn's head | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=Stimulus | | 3 | **love** | past | abysses *= abyss* | abysses's wives and children | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | past | that | | | | | reasonable *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | past | that *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **be** | past | a person than Fionn | | | the world | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/56/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/56/6/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/56/)