--- title: “But try and run like this,” the Carl admonished, and he gave a wrig… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “But try and run like this,” the Carl admonished, and he gave a wriggling bound and a sudden outstretching and scurrying of shanks, and he disappeared from Cael’s sight in one wild spatter of big boots. Who acts: Carl, Cael. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl, Cael), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:52:14 # text = “But try and run like this,” the Carl admonished, and he gave a wriggling bound and a sudden outstretching and scurrying of shanks, and he disappeared from Cael’s sight in one wild spatter of big boots. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Carl Carl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 admonished admonish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 wriggling wriggling NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 bound bound NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 22 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 23 outstretching outstretch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 csubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 scurrying scurry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 shanks shank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 disappeared disappear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 Cael Cael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’s 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 38 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 spatter spatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Carl *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **run** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Carl *not said here* | | | | | like this | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **admonish** | past | the Carl | | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **give** | past | Carl | a wriggling bound and a sudden one wild spatter of big boots | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Theme | | 5 | **outstretch** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **scurry** | gerund | | | | | | of shanks | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of shank=Trajectory | | 7 | **disappear** | past | Carl | | | Cael's sight | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **sight** | | Cael | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **spatter** | | | big boots | | | | | nom spatter «event transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/52/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/52/15/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/52/)