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title: Aillen, with all the terrific strength of which he was master, blew… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Aillen, with all the terrific strength of which he was master, blew again, and the great jet of blue flame came roaring and whistling from him and was caught and disappeared. Who acts: Aillen, great jet. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV, with its dependency tree and t
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 22

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Aillen, with all the terrific strength of which he was master, blew again, and the great jet of blue flame came roaring and whistling from him and was caught and disappeared.

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**Who acts:** Aillen, great jet · **What happens:** be, blow, come, roar, whistle, catch · **To what, where:** master

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aillen, great jet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2892:757`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:27:22
# text = Aillen, with all the terrific strength of which he was master, blew again, and the great jet of blue flame came roaring and whistling from him and was caught and disappeared.
1	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	jet	jet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	whistling	whistle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Aillen | master |  |  |  | of all terrific strength | tree rules |
| 2 | **blow** | past | Aillen |  |  |  | again | with all terrific strength | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with strength=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the great jet of blue flame |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **roar** | gerund | the great jet of blue flame *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **whistle** | gerund | the great jet of blue flame *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from Aillen | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **catch** | past · passive | the great jet of blue flame *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
| 7 | **disappear** | past | the great jet of blue flame *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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