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title: By that time some of the Fianna had returned to the mound to see why… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By that time some of the Fianna had returned to the mound to see why Bran and Sceo’lan were barking so outrageously. Who acts: Fianna, Bran. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 19

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By that time some of the Fianna had returned to the mound to see why Bran and Sceo’lan were barking so outrageously.

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**Who acts:** Fianna, Bran · **What happens:** return, see, bark · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fianna, Bran), 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:pg2892:59:19
# text = By that time some of the Fianna had returned to the mound to see why Bran and Sceo’lan were barking so outrageously.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
16	Bran	Bran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Sceo’lan	Sceo'lan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	outrageously	outrageously	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past · perfect | some Fianna |  |  |  | time | to the mound *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to mound=Result |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | some Fianna *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bark** | past · progressive | Bran and Sceo’lan |  |  |  |  | outrageously *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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