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title: Then with red eyes, with bared fangs, with a hoarse, deep snort and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then with red eyes, with bared fangs, with a hoarse, deep snort and growl he rushed at the cave, and then he halted and sneaked back again with all his ruffles smoothed, his tail between his legs, his eyes screwed sideways in miserable apology and alarm, and a long thin whine of woe dribbling out of
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 6

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Then with red eyes, with bared fangs, with a hoarse, deep snort and growl he rushed at the cave, and then he halted and sneaked back again with all his ruffles smoothed, his tail between his legs, his eyes screwed sideways in miserable apology and alarm, and a long thin whine of woe dribbling out of his nose.

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**Who acts:** ruff, ruffles, eyes, long thin whine, woe · **What happens:** bare, growl, rush, halt, sneak back, smooth · **To what, where:** long thin whine, cave, tail, miserable apology, nose

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ruff, ruffles, eyes, long thin whine), 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:pg2892:60:6
# text = Then with red eyes, with bared fangs, with a hoarse, deep snort and growl he rushed at the cave, and then he halted and sneaked back again with all his ruffles smoothed, his tail between his legs, his eyes screwed sideways in miserable apology and alarm, and a long thin whine of woe dribbling out of his nose.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	bared	bare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	fangs	fang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	snort	snort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	growl	growl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	halted	halt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	sneaked	sneak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	ruffles	ruffle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	smoothed	smooth	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	between	between	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
46	screwed	screw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
47	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	apology	apology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
56	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
57	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	whine	whine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	_
61	dribbling	dribble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	58	acl	_	_
62	out	out	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bare** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **growl** | present |  | a long thin whine of woe |  |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **rush** | past | ruff |  |  | the cave |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cave=Trajectory |
| 4 | **halt** | past | ruff |  |  |  | then |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **sneak back** | past | ruff *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **smooth** | past | ruff's ruffles | ruff's tail between ruff's legs |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **screw** | past | ruff's eyes |  |  | miserable apology and alarm |  | sideways *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **dribble** | gerund | a long thin whine of woe *not said here* |  |  | ruff's nose |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out nose=Location |
| 9 | **whine** |  | woe |  |  |  |  |  | nom whine «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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