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title: She told Conn that the fame of his son Art had reached even the Many… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She told Conn that the fame of his son Art had reached even the Many-Coloured Land, and that she had fallen in love with the boy. Who acts: lady. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 5

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She told Conn that the fame of his son Art had reached even the Many-Coloured Land, and that she had fallen in love with the boy.

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** tell, reach, fall · **To what, where:** Conn, fame, love · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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:pg2892:64:5
# text = She told Conn that the fame of his son Art had reached even the Many-Coloured Land, and that she had fallen in love with the boy.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | lady |  | Conn |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent conn=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **reach** | past · perfect · passive |  | the fame of Conn's son |  |  |  | the Coloured Land *obl* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past · perfect | lady |  |  | love |  | with the boy | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |

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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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