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title: He took his solid, well-balanced sword in his fist, over his left ar… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He took his solid, well-balanced sword in his fist, over his left arm his ample, bossy shield, and, with another side-look at Fionn, he left the hall and charged irresistibly into the fray. Who acts: Goll, side look. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependenc
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 78

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He took his solid, well-balanced sword in his fist, over his left arm his ample, bossy shield, and, with another side-look at Fionn, he left the hall and charged irresistibly into the fray.

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**Who acts:** Goll, side look · **What happens:** take, balance, leave, charge · **To what, where:** solid balanced sword, fist, hall, fray

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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, side look), 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:pg2892:46:78
# text = He took his solid, well-balanced sword in his fist, over his left arm his ample, bossy shield, and, with another side-look at Fionn, he left the hall and charged irresistibly into the fray.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
4	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	balanced	balance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	fist	fist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ample	ample	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	bossy	bossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
40	irresistibly	irresistibly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	fray	fray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Goll | Goll's solid balanced sword |  | Goll's fist |  | over Goll's left arm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sword=Theme shield=Destination |
| 2 | **balance** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past | another side look at Fionn | the hall |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme |
| 4 | **charge** | past | another side look at Fionn *not said here* |  |  | the fray |  | irresistibly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into fray=Destination |

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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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