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title: Fiachna had to do as she demanded, and, although it was with a heavy… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fiachna had to do as she demanded, and, although it was with a heavy heart, he set out in three days’ time for Lochlann, and he brought with him ten battalions. Who acts: Fiachna, war, king. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 10

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Fiachna had to do as she demanded, and, although it was with a heavy heart, he set out in three days’ time for Lochlann, and he brought with him ten battalions.

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**Who acts:** Fiachna, war, king · **What happens:** have, do, demand, be, set out, bring · **To what, where:** ten battalions

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fiachna, war, king), 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:pg2892:77:10
# text = Fiachna had to do as she demanded, and, although it was with a heavy heart, he set out in three days’ time for Lochlann, and he brought with him ten battalions.
1	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	battalions	battalion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Fiachna |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Fiachna *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | Fiachna |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | war |  |  |  |  | with a heavy heart | tree rules |
| 5 | **set out** | past | king |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bring** | past | king | ten battalions |  |  |  | with Lochlann | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent battalion=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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