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title: Conaran did not like Fionn, and, seeing that the great champion was… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Conaran did not like Fionn, and, seeing that the great champion was alone, save for Cona’n and the two hounds Bran and Sceo’lan, he thought the time had come to get Fionn into his power. Who acts: Conaran, great champion, time. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with it
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 2

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Conaran did not like Fionn, and, seeing that the great champion was alone, save for Cona’n and the two hounds Bran and Sceo’lan, he thought the time had come to get Fionn into his power.

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**Who acts:** Conaran, great champion, time · **What happens:** not like, see, be, save, think, come · **To what, where:** Fionn, power · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conaran, great champion, time), 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:pg2892:57:2
# text = Conaran did not like Fionn, and, seeing that the great champion was alone, save for Cona’n and the two hounds Bran and Sceo’lan, he thought the time had come to get Fionn into his power.
1	Conaran	Conaran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
17	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	Bran	Bran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Sceo’lan	Sceo'lan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	ccomp	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
36	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | Conaran | Fionn |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fionn=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | the great champion |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **save** | infinitive | Conaran *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Cona’n and the two hounds | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for cona'n=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Conaran |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | past · perfect | the time |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **get** | to-infinitive | the time *not said here* | Fionn |  | Fionn's power |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fionn=Stimulus |

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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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