---
title: When Mongan saw these cows, he fell in love with them as he had neve… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Mongan saw these cows, he fell in love with them as he had never fallen in love with anything before. Who acts: Mongan. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/81/14/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 X](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/81/) / 14

# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
When Mongan saw these cows, he fell in love with them as he had never fallen in love with anything before.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Mongan · **What happens:** see, fall, not fall · **To what, where:** cows, love

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2892:81:14
# text = When Mongan saw these cows, he fell in love with them as he had never fallen in love with anything before.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obl	_	_
22	before	before	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Mongan | this cows |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Mongan |  |  | love |  | with cows *= cow* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
| 3 | **not** **fall** | past · perfect | Mongan |  |  | love |  | with anything; before *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/81/13/)
- next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/81/15/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter X](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/81/)