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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 37

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Mongan set out, and in no great time, for they travelled day and night, they came to Bregla, and gained admittance to the fortress, but just as he got in he had to go out again, for the King of Leinster had been warned of Mongan’s journey, and came back to his fortress in the nick of time.

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**Who acts:** Mongan, Kevin · **What happens:** set out, travel, come, gain, get, have · **To what, where:** Bregla, admittance, fortress

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, Kevin), 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:pg2892:89:37
# text = Mongan set out, and in no great time, for they travelled day and night, they came to Bregla, and gained admittance to the fortress, but just as he got in he had to go out again, for the King of Leinster had been warned of Mongan’s journey, and came back to his fortress in the nick of time.
1	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Bregla	Bregla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	admittance	admittance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	ccomp	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	out	out	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	again	again	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	warned	warn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	advcl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	’s	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
58	back	back	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
59	to	to	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	nick	nick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | Mongan |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | past | Mongan |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | Mongan |  |  | Bregla |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bregla=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **gain** | past | Mongan *not said here* | admittance |  |  |  | to the fortress *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient admittance=Extent to fortress=Result |
| 5 | **get** | past | Kevin |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **have** | past | Kevin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go out** | to-infinitive | Kevin *not said here* |  |  |  | again | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past · perfect · passive | Kevin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the King of Leinster; of Mongan's journey | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: of journey=Topic |
| 9 | **come back** | past |  |  |  | Kevin's fortress in the nick of time |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fortress=Initial\_Location |
| 10 | **journey** |  | Mongan |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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