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title: I charged him at the head of my troop and rolled him over and over;… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I charged him at the head of my troop and rolled him over and over; but it is not easy to kill the bear, so deeply is his life packed under that stinking pelt. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 11

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I charged him at the head of my troop and rolled him over and over; but it is not easy to kill the bear, so deeply is his life packed under that stinking pelt.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** charge, roll, not be, kill, be, pack · **To what, where:** bear, head, life, stinking pelt

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg2892:8:11
# text = I charged him at the head of my troop and rolled him over and over; but it is not easy to kill the bear, so deeply is his life packed under that stinking pelt.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	expl	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	csubj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
32	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	under	under	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
35	stinking	stink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	amod	_	_
36	pelt	pelt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | past | I | bear |  | the head of my troop |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll** | past | I *not said here* | bear |  |  |  | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | the bear |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | bear's life |  |  |  | deeply *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **pack** | participle |  | bear's life *not said here* |  | that stinking pelt |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme under pelt=Destination |
| 7 | **stink** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «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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