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title: This adventure of Conn the Hundred Fighter and his son Art was by th… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This adventure of Conn the Hundred Fighter and his son Art was by the way of water, and therefore he was more advanced in magic than Fionn was, all of whose adventures were by the path of clay and into Faery only, but Conn was the High King and so the arch-magician of Ireland. Who acts: adventure, L
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 7

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This adventure of Conn the Hundred Fighter and his son Art was by the way of water, and therefore he was more advanced in magic than Fionn was, all of whose adventures were by the path of clay and into Faery only, but Conn was the High King and so the arch-magician of Ireland.

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**Who acts:** adventure, Land, all · **What happens:** be, adventure · **To what, where:** magic, Conn High King, Conn

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventure, Land, all), 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:pg2892:62:7
# text = This adventure of Conn the Hundred Fighter and his son Art was by the way of water, and therefore he was more advanced in magic than Fionn was, all of whose adventures were by the path of clay and into Faery only, but Conn was the High King and so the arch-magician of Ireland.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	Fighter	Fighter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	advanced	advanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Faery	faery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
44	only	only	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	so	so	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	arch-magician	arch-magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this adventure of Conn and Land's son |  |  |  |  | by the way and the path; of water | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Land |  |  | magic |  | than Fionn; advanced, therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | by the path; of clay and Faery | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the Conn High King and the arch-magician of Ireland |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **adventure** |  |  | Conn |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act 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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