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title: But the Carl lifted a pawful of his oozy slop and discharged this at… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Carl lifted a pawful of his oozy slop and discharged this at Cael with such a smash that the man’s head spun off his shoulders and hopped along the ground. Who acts: Carl, head. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 20

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But the Carl lifted a pawful of his oozy slop and discharged this at Cael with such a smash that the man’s head spun off his shoulders and hopped along the ground.

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**Who acts:** Carl, head · **What happens:** lift, discharge, spin off, hop · **To what, where:** pawful, this, Cael, shoulders, ground

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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, head), 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:pg2892:55:20
# text = But the Carl lifted a pawful of his oozy slop and discharged this at Cael with such a smash that the man’s head spun off his shoulders and hopped along the ground.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pawful	pawful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	oozy	oozy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	slop	slop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	discharged	discharge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Cael	Cael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	smash	smash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	spun	spin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	along	along	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | the Carl | a pawful of Carl's oozy slop |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pawful=Theme |
| 2 | **discharge** | participle | the Carl *not said here* | this |  | Cael |  | with such smash | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 3 | **spin off** | past | the man's head | Carl's shoulders |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme |
| 4 | **hop** | past | the man's head *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ground=Trajectory |

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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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