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title: But at that terrible sight Goll mae Morna blushed deeply and leaped… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But at that terrible sight Goll mae Morna blushed deeply and leaped from the ground. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 22

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But at that terrible sight Goll mae Morna blushed deeply and leaped from the ground.

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**What happens:** blush, leap · **To what, where:** terrible sight, ground

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2892:61:22
# text = But at that terrible sight Goll mae Morna blushed deeply and leaped from the ground.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	Goll	Goll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	mae	mae	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	Morna	Morna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	blushed	blush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blush** | past |  |  |  | that terrible sight and Goll mae |  | deeply *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leap** | participle |  |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from 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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