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title: The Carl then picked up the head and threw it at the body with such… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Carl then picked up the head and threw it at the body with such aim and force that the neck part of the head jammed into the neck part of the body and stuck there, as good a head as ever, you would have said, but that it bad got twisted the wrong way round. Who acts: Carl, you. A sentence of «Ir
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 21

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The Carl then picked up the head and threw it at the body with such aim and force that the neck part of the head jammed into the neck part of the body and stuck there, as good a head as ever, you would have said, but that it bad got twisted the wrong way round.

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**Who acts:** Carl, you · **What happens:** pick up, throw, jam, stick, say, get · **To what, where:** head, body, neck part, good head, wrong way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, you), 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:pg2892:55:21
# text = The Carl then picked up the head and threw it at the body with such aim and force that the neck part of the head jammed into the neck part of the body and stuck there, as good a head as ever, you would have said, but that it bad got twisted the wrong way round.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	jammed	jam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	aux	_	_
48	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	advcl	_	_
54	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
55	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	xcomp	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
59	round	round	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | the Carl | the head |  |  | then |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic |
| 2 | **throw** | past | the Carl *not said here* | head |  | the body |  | with such aim and force | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at body=Destination |
| 3 | **jam** | participle · passive |  | the neck part of the head |  | the neck part of the body |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into part=Destination |
| 4 | **stick** | past | the Carl *not said here* | a good head |  | there |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | would · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **get** | past |  | the wrong way |  |  |  | round, twisted *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |

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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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