--- title: Chapter XV — Irish Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: Chapter XV, «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The road was now not so crowded as it had been. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/) [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 XV # Chapter XV Chapter XV of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens: the whole text, 47 sentences and 712 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/1/) — The road was now not so crowded as it had been. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/2/) — Minutes would pass and only a few travellers would come, and minutes more would go when nobody was in sight at all. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/3/) — Then two men came down the road: they were clerics. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/4/) — “I never saw that kind of uniform before,” said mac an Da’v. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/5/) — “Even if you didn’t,” said Mongan, “there are plenty of them about. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/6/) — They are men that don’t believe in our gods,” said he. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/7/) — “Do they not, indeed?” said mac an Da’v. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/8/) — “The rascals!” said he. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/9/) — “What, what would Mananna’n say to that?” - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/10/) — “The one in front carrying the big book is Tibraide’. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/11/) — He is the priest of Cell Camain, and he is the chief of those two.” - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/12/) — “Indeed, and indeed!” said mac an Da’v. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/13/) — “The one behind must be his servant, for he has a load on his back.” - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/14/) — The priests were reading their offices, and mac an Da’v marvelled at that. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/15/) — “What is it they are doing?” said he. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/16/) — “They are reading.” - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/17/) — “Indeed, and indeed they are,” said mac an Da’v. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/18/) — “I can’t make out a word of the language except that the man behind says amen, amen, every time the man in front puts a grunt out of him. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/19/) — And they don’t like our gods at all!” said mac an Da’v. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/20/) — “They do not,” said Mongan. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/21/) — “Play a trick on them, master,” said mac an Da’v. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/22/) — Mongan agreed to play a trick on the priests. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/23/) — He looked at them hard for a minute, and then he waved his hand at them. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/24/) — The two priests stopped, and they stared straight in front of them, and then they looked at each other, and then they looked at the sky. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/25/) — The clerk began to bless himself, and then Tibraide’ began to bless himself, and after that they didn’t know what to do. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/26/) — For where there had been a road with hedges on each side and fields stretching beyond them, there was now no road, no hedge, no field; but there was a great broad river sweeping across their path; a mighty tumble of yellowy-brown waters, very swift, very savage; churning and billowing and jockeying among rough boulders and islands of stone. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/27/) — It was a water of villainous depth and of detestable wetness; of ugly hurrying and of desolate cavernous sound. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/28/) — At a little to their right there was a thin uncomely bridge that waggled across the torrent. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/29/) — Tibraide’ rubbed his eyes, and then he looked again. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/30/) — “Do you see what I see?” said he to the clerk. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/31/) — “I don’t know what you see,” said the clerk, “but what I see I never did see before, and I wish I did not see it now.” - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/32/) — “I was born in this place,” said Tibraide’, “my father was born here before me, and my grandfather was born here before him, but until this day and this minute I never saw a river here before, and I never heard of one.” - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/33/) — “What will we do at all?” said the clerk. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/34/) — “What will we do at all?” - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/35/) — “We will be sensible,” said Tibraide’ sternly, “and we will go about our business,” said he. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/36/) — “If rivers fall out of the sky what has that to do with you, and if there is a river here, which there is, why, thank God, there is a bridge over it too.” - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/37/) — “Would you put a toe on that bridge?” said the clerk. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/38/) — “What is the bridge for?” said Tibraide’ Mongan and mac an Da’v followed them. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/39/) — When they got to the middle of the bridge it broke under them, and they were precipitated into that boiling yellow flood. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/40/) — Mongan snatched at the book as it fell from Tibraide’s hand. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/41/) — “Won’t you let them drown, master?” asked mac an Da’v. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/42/) — “No,” said Mongan, “I’ll send them a mile down the stream, and then they can come to land.” - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/43/) — Mongan then took on himself the form of Tibraide’ and he turned mac an Da’v into the shape of the clerk. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/44/) — “My head has gone bald,” said the servant in a whisper. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/45/) — “That is part of it,” replied Mongan. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/46/) — “So long as we know,” said mac an Da’v. - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/86/47/) — They went on then to meet the King of Leinster. - ← previous: [Chapter XIV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/85/) - next →: [Chapter XVI. 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