--- title: Mongan read away out of the book, for he found it interesting, and h… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Mongan read away out of the book, for he found it interesting, and he did not want to talk to the charioteer, and mac an Da’v cried amen, amen, every time that Mongan took his breath. Who acts: Mongan, Da’v, time. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. They met him near th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/87/10/) [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 XVI. They met him near the pla…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/87/) / 10 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 10 Mongan read away out of the book, for he found it interesting, and he did not want to talk to the charioteer, and mac an Da’v cried amen, amen, every time that Mongan took his breath. **Who acts:** Mongan, Da’v, time · **What happens:** read away, find, not want, talk, mac, cry · **To what, where:** book, amen, breath This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, Da’v, time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:87:10 # text = Mongan read away out of the book, for he found it interesting, and he did not want to talk to the charioteer, and mac an Da’v cried amen, amen, every time that Mongan took his breath. 1 Mongan Mongan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 away away ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 out out ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 interesting interesting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 charioteer charioteer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 mac mac VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Da’v Da'v PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 31 amen amen NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 amen amen NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 38 Mongan Mongan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read away** | past | Mongan | | | the book | | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **find** | past | Mongan | book | | | | interesting *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 3 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | Mongan | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **talk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mongan *not said here* | | | | | to the charioteer | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to charioteer=Co-Agent | | 5 | **mac** | infinitive | Mongan *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | a Da’v | amen and amen and every time | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amen=Topic | | 7 | **take** | past | every time | Mongan's breath | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/87/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/87/11/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVI. 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