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title: Then he commenced to paw and impel and project and cram the mixture… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he commenced to paw and impel and project and cram the mixture into his mouth, and between each mouthful he sighed a contented sigh, and during every mouthful he gurgled an oozy gurgle. Who acts: Meal. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree a
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 16

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Then he commenced to paw and impel and project and cram the mixture into his mouth, and between each mouthful he sighed a contented sigh, and during every mouthful he gurgled an oozy gurgle.

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**Who acts:** Meal · **What happens:** commence, impel, project, cram, sigh, content · **To what, where:** paw, mixture, mouth, contented sigh, oozy gurgle

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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 (Meal), 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:pg2892:55:16
# text = Then he commenced to paw and impel and project and cram the mixture into his mouth, and between each mouthful he sighed a contented sigh, and during every mouthful he gurgled an oozy gurgle.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	commenced	commence	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	impel	impel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	project	project	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cram	cram	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mixture	mixture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	during	during	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	gurgled	gurgle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	oozy	oozy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	gurgle	gurgle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commence** | past | Meal | paw |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Eventuality |
| 2 | **impel** | infinitive | Meal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **project** | infinitive | Meal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cram** | infinitive | Meal *not said here* | the mixture |  | Meal's mouth |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mixture=Theme into mouth=Destination |
| 5 | **sigh** | past | Meal | a contented sigh |  |  |  | between each mouthful | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Topic |
| 6 | **content** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **gurgle** | past | Meal | a oozy gurgle |  |  | during every mouthful |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gurgle=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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