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title: On reaching the palace Conn called his magicians and poets to a coun… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On reaching the palace Conn called his magicians and poets to a council and informed them that he had found the boy they sought--the son of a virgin. Who acts: Conn, magicians. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 1

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On reaching the palace Conn called his magicians and poets to a council and informed them that he had found the boy they sought--the son of a virgin.

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**Who acts:** Conn, magicians · **What happens:** reach, call, inform, find, seek · **To what, where:** palace, magicians, council, boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn, magicians), 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:pg2892:68:1
# text = On reaching the palace Conn called his magicians and poets to a council and informed them that he had found the boy they sought--the son of a virgin.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	informed	inform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | gerund | Conn *not said here* | the palace |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | past | Conn | Conn's magicians and poets | a council |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent magician=Topic to council=Recipient |
| 3 | **inform** *speech: other* | past | Conn *not said here* |  | magicians *= magician* |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **find** | past · perfect | Conn | the boy |  |  |  | the son of a virgin *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic |
| 5 | **seek** | past | magicians *= magician* | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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