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title: One day a story-teller came to the monastery, and, like all the othe… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a story-teller came to the monastery, and, like all the others, he was heartily welcomed and given a great deal more than his need. Who acts: story teller, neighbourhood. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 8

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One day a story-teller came to the monastery, and, like all the others, he was heartily welcomed and given a great deal more than his need.

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**Who acts:** story teller, neighbourhood · **What happens:** come, welcome, give, need · **To what, where:** monastery, neighbourhood, great deal

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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), 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:pg2892:72:8
# text = One day a story-teller came to the monastery, and, like all the others, he was heartily welcomed and given a great deal more than his need.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	monastery	monastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a story teller |  |  | the monastery | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to monastery=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **welcome** | past · passive |  | neighbourhood |  |  |  | like all others; heartily *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | participle |  | a great deal |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Theme |
| 4 | **need** |  | neighbourhood |  |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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