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title: In order to end the trouble between Fiachna Finn and Fiachna Duv the… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In order to end the trouble between Fiachna Finn and Fiachna Duv the babies were affianced to each other in the cradle on the day after they were born, and the men of Ireland rejoiced at that deed and at that news. Who acts: day, men. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 15

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In order to end the trouble between Fiachna Finn and Fiachna Duv the babies were affianced to each other in the cradle on the day after they were born, and the men of Ireland rejoiced at that deed and at that news.

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**Who acts:** day, men · **What happens:** end, affiance, bear, rejoice · **To what, where:** trouble, babies, cradle, deed

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, men), 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:pg2892:79:15
# text = In order to end the trouble between Fiachna Finn and Fiachna Duv the babies were affianced to each other in the cradle on the day after they were born, and the men of Ireland rejoiced at that deed and at that news.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	end	end	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	affianced	affiance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	16	obl	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
43	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | to-infinitive |  | the trouble |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality trouble=Eventuality |
| 2 | **affiance** | past · passive |  | the babies |  | the cradle on the day |  | between Fiachna Finn and Fiachna; to each | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | past · passive | the day *not said here* | babies *= baby* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **rejoice** | past | the men of Ireland |  |  | that deed and that news |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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