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description: But that did not prevent Goll from killing Fionn’s brother Cairell later on, nor did it prevent Fionn from killing Goll later on again, and the last did not prevent Goll from rescuing Fionn out of hell when the Fianna-Finn were sent there under the new God. Who acts: that, Fianna, last. A sentence o
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 42

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But that did not prevent Goll from killing Fionn’s brother Cairell later on, nor did it prevent Fionn from killing Goll later on again, and the last did not prevent Goll from rescuing Fionn out of hell when the Fianna-Finn were sent there under the new God.

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**Who acts:** that, Fianna, last · **What happens:** not prevent, kill on, do, prevent, kill, rescue · **To what, where:** Goll, Cairell, Fionn, hell, Fianna Finn

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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 (that, Fianna, last), 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:pg2892:61:42
# text = But that did not prevent Goll from killing Fionn’s brother Cairell later on, nor did it prevent Fionn from killing Goll later on again, and the last did not prevent Goll from rescuing Fionn out of hell when the Fianna-Finn were sent there under the new God.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Cairell	Cairell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nsubj	_	_
31	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
34	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	rescuing	rescue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
37	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	47	mark	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	_
48	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
49	under	under	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **prevent** | past · do-support | that | Goll |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer goll=Theme |
| 2 | **kill on** | gerund | that *not said here* | Cairell  Fionn's brother |  |  |  | late *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cairell=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **prevent** | infinitive | Fianna | Fionn |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer fionn=Theme |
| 5 | **kill** | gerund | Fianna *not said here* | Goll |  |  |  | late *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goll=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **prevent** | past · do-support | the last | Goll |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer goll=Theme |
| 7 | **rescue** | gerund | the last *not said here* | Fionn |  | hell |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fionn=Theme out hell=Source |
| 8 | **send** | past · passive |  | the Fianna Finn |  | there |  | under the new God | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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