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title: Then Oscar himself leaped up, and with a hammer in either hand he we… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Oscar himself leaped up, and with a hammer in either hand he went battering into the melee. Who acts: Oscar. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 54

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Then Oscar himself leaped up, and with a hammer in either hand he went battering into the melee.

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**Who acts:** Oscar · **What happens:** leap up, go, batter · **To what, where:** Oscar, melee

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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 (Oscar), 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:pg2892:46:54
# text = Then Oscar himself leaped up, and with a hammer in either hand he went battering into the melee.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	battering	batter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	melee	melee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap up** | participle |  | Oscar  Oscar |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Oscar |  |  |  |  | with a hammer in either hand | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **batter** | gerund | Oscar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the melee *result* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into melee=Result |

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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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