--- title: “Should you pass those hags,” she continued, “and no one has yet pas… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Should you pass those hags,” she continued, “and no one has yet passed them, you must meet Ailill of the Black Teeth, the son of Mongan Tender Blossom, and who could pass that gigantic and terrible fighter?” Who acts: you, journey. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/70/13/) [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 IX](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/70/) / 13 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 13 “Should you pass those hags,” she continued, “and no one has yet passed them, you must meet Ailill of the Black Teeth, the son of Mongan Tender Blossom, and who could pass that gigantic and terrible fighter?” **Who acts:** you, journey · **What happens:** pass, continue, meet · **To what, where:** hags, one, Ailill, gigantic fighter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, journey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:70:13 # text = “Should you pass those hags,” she continued, “and no one has yet passed them, you must meet Ailill of the Black Teeth, the son of Mongan Tender Blossom, and who could pass that gigantic and terrible fighter?” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 5 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 hags hag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 yet yet ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 ccomp _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 24 Ailill Ailill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Black Black PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Teeth Teeth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 Mongan Mongan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 Tender Tender PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Blossom Blossom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 parataxis _ _ 41 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 det _ _ 42 gigantic gigantic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 conj _ _ 45 fighter fighter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ? ? PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ” " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** *in a quote* | should | you | that hags | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hag=Trajectory | | 2 | **continue** | past | journey | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **pass** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | no one | | | yet | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Theme | | 4 | **meet** *in a quote* | must | you | Ailill of the Black Teeth | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ailill=Co-Agent | | 5 | **pass** *in a quote* | could | | that gigantic fighter | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fighter=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/70/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/70/14/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/70/)