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title: So, whenever a story-teller chanced in that neighbourhood he was dir… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So, whenever a story-teller chanced in that neighbourhood he was directed to the monastery, and there he received a welcome and his fill of all that is good for man. Who acts: story teller, neighbourhood, all. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree a
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 5

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So, whenever a story-teller chanced in that neighbourhood he was directed to the monastery, and there he received a welcome and his fill of all that is good for man.

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**Who acts:** story teller, neighbourhood, all · **What happens:** chance, direct, receive, be · **To what, where:** neighbourhood, welcome, fill

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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 (story teller, neighbourhood, 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:pg2892:72:5
# text = So, whenever a story-teller chanced in that neighbourhood he was directed to the monastery, and there he received a welcome and his fill of all that is good for man.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	chanced	chance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	directed	direct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	monastery	monastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	fill	fill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nsubj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	acl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **chance** | participle | a story teller |  |  | that neighbourhood |  | whenever *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in neighbourhood=Location |
| 2 | **direct** | past · passive |  | neighbourhood |  |  |  | to the monastery | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | past | neighbourhood | a welcome and neighbourhood's fill |  | there |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent welcome=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | all | neighbourhood's fill *not said here* |  |  |  | for man; good *property* | tree rules |

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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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