---
title: But the men of Ireland and the magicians stated that the king had go… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the men of Ireland and the magicians stated that the king had gone to Faery for a special purpose, and that his acts outside or contrary to that purpose were illegal, and committed no person to obedience. Who acts: men, king, acts. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/68/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter VII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/68/) / 10

# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But the men of Ireland and the magicians stated that the king had gone to Faery for a special purpose, and that his acts outside or contrary to that purpose were illegal, and committed no person to obedience.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** men, king, acts · **What happens:** state, go, be, commit, act · **To what, where:** Faery, person, obedience · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (men, king, acts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2892:68:10
# text = But the men of Ireland and the magicians stated that the king had gone to Faery for a special purpose, and that his acts outside or contrary to that purpose were illegal, and committed no person to obedience.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	stated	state	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Faery	faery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
26	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	contrary	contrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	illegal	illegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	committed	commit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
37	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	det	_	_
38	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | past | the men of Ireland and the magicians |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | the king |  |  | Faery |  | for a special purpose | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to faery=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | King's acts |  |  |  |  | illegal *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **commit** | past | the men of Ireland and the magicians *not said here* | no person |  | obedience |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent person=Theme to obedience=Destination |
| 5 | **act** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/68/9/)
- next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/68/11/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter VII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/68/)