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title: “Hurry up with that tooth,” the man in front of him grum-bled, “for… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Hurry up with that tooth,” the man in front of him grum-bled, “for I want to knock out another one.” Who acts: you, two. 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 67

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“Hurry up with that tooth,” the man in front of him grum-bled, “for I want to knock out another one.”

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**Who acts:** you, two · **What happens:** hurry up, bleed, want, knock out · **To what, where:** man, front, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, two), 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:pg2892:46:67
# text = “Hurry up with that tooth,” the man in front of him grum-bled, “for I want to knock out another one.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	grum	grum	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	bled	bleed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry up** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the man |  | front of tooth |  | with that tooth | tree rules |
| 2 | **bleed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present | two |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **knock out** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | two *not said here* | another one |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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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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