--- title: Chapter III — Irish Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: Chapter III, «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: BY his arts Conaran changed the sight of Fionn’s eyes, and he did the same for Cona’n. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/) [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 III # Chapter III Chapter III of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens: the whole text, 40 sentences and 451 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/1/) — BY his arts Conaran changed the sight of Fionn’s eyes, and he did the same for Cona’n. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/2/) — In a few minutes Fionn stood up from his place on the mound. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/3/) — Everything was about him as before, and he did not know that he had gone into Faery. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/4/) — He walked for a minute up and down the hillock. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/5/) — Then, as by chance, he stepped down the sloping end of the mound and stood with his mouth open, staring. — checked by a teacher - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/6/) — He cried out: - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/7/) — “Come down here, Cona’n, my darling.” - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/8/) — Cona’n stepped down to him. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/9/) — “Am I dreaming?” - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/10/) — Fionn demanded, and he stretched out his finger before him. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/11/) — “If you are dreaming,” said Congn, “I’m dreaming too. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/12/) — They weren’t here a minute ago,” he stammered. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/13/) — Fionn looked up at the sky and found that it was still there. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/14/) — He stared to one side and saw the trees of Kyle Conor waving in the distance. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/15/) — He bent his ear to the wind and heard the shouting of hunters, the yapping of dogs, and the clear whistles, which told how the hunt was going. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/16/) — “Well!” said Fionn to himself. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/17/) — “By my hand!” quoth Cona’n to his own soul. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/18/) — And the two men stared into the hillside as though what they were looking at was too wonderful to be looked away from. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/19/) — “Who are they?” said Fionn. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/20/) — “What are they?” - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/21/) — Cona’n gasped. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/22/) — And they stared again. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/23/) — For there was a great hole like a doorway in the side of the mound, and in that doorway the daughters of Conaran sat spinning. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/24/) — They had three crooked sticks of holly set up before the cave, and they were reeling yarn off these. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/25/) — But it was enchantment they were weaving. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/26/) — “One could not call them handsome,” said Cona’n. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/27/) — “One could,” Fionn replied, “but it would not be true.” - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/28/) — “I cannot see them properly,” Fionn complained. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/29/) — “They are hiding behind the holly.” - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/30/) — “I would be contented if I could not see them at all,” his companion grumbled. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/31/) — But the Chief insisted. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/32/) — “I want to make sure that it is whiskers they are wearing.” - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/33/) — “Let them wear whiskers or not wear them,” Cona’n counselled. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/34/) — “But let us have nothing to do with them.” - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/35/) — “One must not be frightened of anything,” Fionn stated. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/36/) — “I am not frightened,” Cona’n explained. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/37/) — “I only want to keep my good opinion of women, and if the three yonder are women, then I feel sure I shall begin to dislike females from this minute out.” - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/38/) — “Come on, my love,” said Fionn, “for I must find out if these whiskers are true.” - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/39/) — He strode resolutely into the cave. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/40/) — He pushed the branches of holly aside and marched up to Conaran’s daughters, with Cona’n behind him. - 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