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title: The old, lone wolf leaped sideways, snarling, and slunk away. — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The old, lone wolf leaped sideways, snarling, and slunk away. Who acts: old lone wolf. 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 23

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The old, lone wolf leaped sideways, snarling, and slunk away.

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**Who acts:** old lone wolf · **What happens:** leap, snarl, slink away · **To what, where:** old lone wolf

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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: who acts (old lone wolf), 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:pg2892:7:23
# text = The old, lone wolf leaped sideways, snarling, and slunk away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	snarling	snarl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	slunk	slink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | participle |  | the old lone wolf *not said here* |  |  |  | sideways *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **snarl** | gerund | the old lone wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **slink away** | past | the old lone wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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