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title: It was a leg and an arm gripped then; a swing for Fionn, and out and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a leg and an arm gripped then; a swing for Fionn, and out and away with him; plop and flop for him; down into chill deep death for him, and up with a splutter; with a sob; with a grasp at everything that caught nothing; with a wild flurry; with a raging despair; with a bubble and snort as he 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 22

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It was a leg and an arm gripped then; a swing for Fionn, and out and away with him; plop and flop for him; down into chill deep death for him, and up with a splutter; with a sob; with a grasp at everything that caught nothing; with a wild flurry; with a raging despair; with a bubble and snort as he was hauled again down, and down, and down, and found as suddenly that he had been hauled out.

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** be, flop, catch, rage, haul, find · **To what, where:** deep death, nothing, boy

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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:pg2892:17:22
# text = It was a leg and an arm gripped then; a swing for Fionn, and out and away with him; plop and flop for him; down into chill deep death for him, and up with a splutter; with a sob; with a grasp at everything that caught nothing; with a wild flurry; with a raging despair; with a bubble and snort as he was hauled again down, and down, and down, and found as suddenly that he had been hauled out.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	gripped	grip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	plop	plop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	flop	flop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	chill	chill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	up	up	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	splutter	splutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	sob	sob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	grasp	grasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	49	nmod	_	_
52	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	_
53	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
54	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	flurry	flurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	64	punct	_	_
61	with	with	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	64	amod	_	_
64	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	68	punct	_	_
66	with	with	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	bubble	bubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
69	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
70	snort	snort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	conj	_	_
71	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	74	mark	_	_
72	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	74	nsubj	_	_
73	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	74	aux:pass	_	_
74	hauled	haul	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
75	again	again	ADV	RB	_	76	advmod	_	_
76	down	down	ADV	RB	_	74	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	79	punct	_	_
78	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	79	cc	_	_
79	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	82	punct	_	_
81	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	82	cc	_	_
82	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
83	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	85	punct	_	_
84	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	85	cc	_	_
85	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
86	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	92	mark	_	_
87	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	92	advmod	_	_
88	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	92	mark	_	_
89	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	92	nsubj	_	_
90	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	92	aux	_	_
91	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	92	aux:pass	_	_
92	hauled	haul	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	85	advcl	_	_
93	out	out	ADP	RP	_	92	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
94	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | heart |  |  | deep death for boy | then | with boy; with a splutter; with a sob; with a grasp at everything; with a wild flurry; with a raging despair; a swing for Fionn *obl*; plop *obl*; down, grip *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **flop** | infinitive | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for boy | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch** | past |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 4 | **rage** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **haul** | past · passive |  | boy |  |  |  | down *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **find** | participle | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **haul out** | past · perfect · passive |  | boy |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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