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title: Fin spent two or three happy days with Oonagh, and felt himself very… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fin spent two or three happy days with Oonagh, and felt himself very comfortable, considering the dread he had of Cucullin. Who acts: Fin, Oonagh. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 23

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Fin spent two or three happy days with Oonagh, and felt himself very comfortable, considering the dread he had of Cucullin.

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**Who acts:** Fin, Oonagh · **What happens:** spend, feel, consider, have · **To what, where:** Oonagh, dread

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fin, Oonagh), 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:pg7885:22:23
# text = Fin spent two or three happy days with Oonagh, and felt himself very comfortable, considering the dread he had of Cucullin.
1	Fin	fin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | Fin |  |  |  | day | with Oonagh | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Fin *not said here* | Oonagh |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **consider** | gerund | Fin *not said here* | the dread |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dread=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | Oonagh |  |  |  |  | of Cucullin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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