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title: And with that he incensed and exploded himself into an eye-blinding,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And with that he incensed and exploded himself into an eye-blinding, continuous, waggle and complexity of boots that left Cael behind him in a flash. Who acts: Carl, boots. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 42

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And with that he incensed and exploded himself into an eye-blinding, continuous, waggle and complexity of boots that left Cael behind him in a flash.

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**Who acts:** Carl, boots · **What happens:** incense, explode, leave · **To what, where:** Carl, eye blinding, Cael, flash

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl, boots), 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:pg2892:52:42
# text = And with that he incensed and exploded himself into an eye-blinding, continuous, waggle and complexity of boots that left Cael behind him in a flash.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	incensed	incense	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	exploded	explode	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	blinding	blinding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	continuous	continuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	waggle	waggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	complexity	complexity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	Cael	Cael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incense** | past | Carl |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **explode** | past |  | Carl |  | a eye blinding and waggle and complexity of boots |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past | boots | Cael |  | a flash |  | behind Carl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cael=Theme behind he=Location |

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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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