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title: Goll sat twisted round watching the progress of the brawl critically… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Goll sat twisted round watching the progress of the brawl critically, and Fionn, sitting opposite, watched Goll. Who acts: Goll, Fionn, brawl. 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 70

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Goll sat twisted round watching the progress of the brawl critically, and Fionn, sitting opposite, watched Goll.

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**Who acts:** Goll, Fionn, brawl · **What happens:** sit, twist, watch, progress · **To what, where:** progress, Goll

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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 (Goll, Fionn, brawl), 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:pg2892:46:70
# text = Goll sat twisted round watching the progress of the brawl critically, and Fionn, sitting opposite, watched Goll.
1	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	twisted	twist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	brawl	brawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	critically	critically	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
17	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Goll |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **twist** | participle | Goll *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | Goll *not said here* | the progress of the brawl |  |  |  | critically *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent progress=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | Fionn |  |  |  |  | opposite *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **watch** | past | Goll *not said here* | Goll |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goll=Theme |
| 6 | **progress** |  | the brawl |  |  |  |  |  | nom progress «act 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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