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title: Cona’n also refused, and so did Caelte mac Rona’n and mac Lugac, for… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Cona’n also refused, and so did Caelte mac Rona’n and mac Lugac, for there was no man there but was terrified by the sight of that mighty and valiant harridan. Who acts: Cona’n, Caelte. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 18

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Cona’n also refused, and so did Caelte mac Rona’n and mac Lugac, for there was no man there but was terrified by the sight of that mighty and valiant harridan.

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**Who acts:** Cona’n, Caelte · **What happens:** refuse, do, be, sight · **To what, where:** man, mighty harridan

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cona’n, Caelte), 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:pg2892:61:18
# text = Cona’n also refused, and so did Caelte mac Rona’n and mac Lugac, for there was no man there but was terrified by the sight of that mighty and valiant harridan.
1	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	Caelte	Caelte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
9	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	Rona’n	Rona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	Lugac	Lugac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
29	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	harridan	harridan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | Cona’n |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past | Cona’n *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Caelte and mac | no man |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Cona’n *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the sight of that mighty harridan; terrified *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | that mighty harridan |  |  |  |  | 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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