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title: Rage began to gnaw in Fionn’s soul, and a red haze danced and flicke… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Rage began to gnaw in Fionn’s soul, and a red haze danced and flickered before his eyes. Who acts: Rage, red haze. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 27

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Rage began to gnaw in Fionn’s soul, and a red haze danced and flickered before his eyes.

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**Who acts:** Rage, red haze · **What happens:** begin, gnaw, dance, flicker · **To what, where:** soul, eyes

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rage, red haze), 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:pg2892:53:27
# text = Rage began to gnaw in Fionn’s soul, and a red haze danced and flickered before his eyes.
1	Rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	haze	haze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	danced	dance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	flickered	flicker	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Rage |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **gnaw** | to-infinitive | Rage *not said here* |  |  | Fionn's soul |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dance** | participle | a red haze |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **flicker** | participle | a red haze *not said here* |  |  | haze's eyes |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=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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