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title: These two encountered then, and Oscar knocked a groan of distress ou… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: These two encountered then, and Oscar knocked a groan of distress out of Cona’n. Who acts: two, Oscar, distress. 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 56

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These two encountered then, and Oscar knocked a groan of distress out of Cona’n.

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**Who acts:** two, Oscar, distress · **What happens:** encounter, knock, groan · **To what, where:** groan, Cona’n

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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 (two, Oscar, distress), 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:pg2892:46:56
# text = These two encountered then, and Oscar knocked a groan of distress out of Cona’n.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	groan	groan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encounter** | past | this two |  |  |  | then |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **knock** | past | Oscar | a groan of distress |  | Cona’n |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent groan=Theme out cona'n=Destination |
| 3 | **groan** |  | distress |  |  |  |  |  | nom groan «communication intransitive»: of=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:** «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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