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title: The harridan did as she had promised, and in a short time Fionn and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The harridan did as she had promised, and in a short time Fionn and Oisi’n and Oscar and Cona’n were released, and after that all the Fianna were released. Who acts: harridan, stroke. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 23

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The harridan did as she had promised, and in a short time Fionn and Oisi’n and Oscar and Cona’n were released, and after that all the Fianna were released.

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**Who acts:** harridan, stroke · **What happens:** do, promise, release · **To what, where:** Fionn, that

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harridan, stroke), 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:pg2892:60:23
# text = The harridan did as she had promised, and in a short time Fionn and Oisi’n and Oscar and Cona’n were released, and after that all the Fianna were released.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	harridan	harridan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
14	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Oisi’n	Oisi'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the harridan |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | stroke |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **release** | past · passive |  | Fionn and Oisi’n and Oscar and Cona’n |  |  | time |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 4 | **release** | past · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |

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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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