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title: The Carl of the Drab Coat came bumping and stumping and clumping int… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Carl of the Drab Coat came bumping and stumping and clumping into the camp, and was surrounded by a multitude that adored him and hailed him with tears. Who acts: Carl, multitude. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 1

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The Carl of the Drab Coat came bumping and stumping and clumping into the camp, and was surrounded by a multitude that adored him and hailed him with tears.

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**Who acts:** Carl, multitude · **What happens:** come, bump, stump, clump, surround, adore · **To what, where:** camp, Carl

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl, multitude), 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:pg2892:55:1
# text = The Carl of the Drab Coat came bumping and stumping and clumping into the camp, and was surrounded by a multitude that adored him and hailed him with tears.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Drab	Drab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Coat	Coat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	bumping	bump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stumping	stump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	clumping	clump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:agent	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	adored	adore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	hailed	hail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Carl of the Drab Coat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bump** | gerund | the Carl of the Drab Coat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stump** | gerund | the Carl of the Drab Coat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **clump** | gerund | the Carl of the Drab Coat *not said here* |  |  | the camp |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into camp=Destination |
| 5 | **surround** | past · passive | a multitude |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **adore** | past | a multitude | Carl |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 7 | **hail** | past | a multitude *not said here* | Carl |  |  |  | with tears | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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