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title: We do not know what Fionn had done to Conaran, but it must have been… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: We do not know what Fionn had done to Conaran, but it must have been bad enough, for the king of the Shi’ of Cesh Cotran was filled with joy at the sight of Fionn thus close to him, thus unprotected, thus unsuspicious. Who acts: We, Fionn, champion. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephen
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 3

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We do not know what Fionn had done to Conaran, but it must have been bad enough, for the king of the Shi’ of Cesh Cotran was filled with joy at the sight of Fionn thus close to him, thus unprotected, thus unsuspicious.

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**Who acts:** We, Fionn, champion · **What happens:** not know, do, be, fill, sight · **To what, where:** Conaran, king, sight, Fionn · **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 (We, Fionn, champion), 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:pg2892:57:3
# text = We do not know what Fionn had done to Conaran, but it must have been bad enough, for the king of the Shi’ of Cesh Cotran was filled with joy at the sight of Fionn thus close to him, thus unprotected, thus unsuspicious.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Conaran	Conaran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
17	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Cesh	Cesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	Cotran	Cotran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	unprotected	unprotected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	unsuspicious	unsuspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | Fionn |  | Conaran |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | must · perfect | champion |  |  |  |  | bad, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the king *not said here* |  | the sight of Fionn |  | of the Shi ’ of Cesh; with joy | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with joy=Instrument |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | Fionn |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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