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title: “You undertake that,” growled Cairell, and on the word he loosed a f… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “You undertake that,” growled Cairell, and on the word he loosed a furious buffet at Con’an, which Cona’n returned with a fist so big that every part of Cairell’s face was hit with the one blow. Who acts: You, Cairell, Cona’n. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 51

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“You undertake that,” growled Cairell, and on the word he loosed a furious buffet at Con’an, which Cona’n returned with a fist so big that every part of Cairell’s face was hit with the one blow.

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**Who acts:** You, Cairell, Cona’n · **What happens:** undertake, growl, loose, return, hit · **To what, where:** that, Cairell, furious buffet, word, Con’an, part

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Cairell, Cona’n), 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:pg2892:46:51
# text = “You undertake that,” growled Cairell, and on the word he loosed a furious buffet at Con’an, which Cona’n returned with a fist so big that every part of Cairell’s face was hit with the one blow.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	undertake	undertake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	growled	growl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	Cairell	Cairell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	loosed	loose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	buffet	buffet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Con’an	Con'an	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fist	fist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	Cairell	Cairell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undertake** *in a quote* | present | You | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **growl** | past | You *not said here* | Cairell |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cairell=Topic |
| 3 | **loose** | past | Cairell | a furious buffet |  | the word |  | at Con’an | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent buffet=Patient |
| 4 | **return** | past | Cona’n | Con’an |  |  |  | with a fist | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 5 | **hit** | past · passive |  | every part of Cairell's face |  |  |  | with the one blow | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with blow=Instrument |

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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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