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title: He picked himself up and ran, and was knocked down, and ran again bl… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He picked himself up and ran, and was knocked down, and ran again blindly, butting into trees and stones. Who acts: bear. 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 12

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He picked himself up and ran, and was knocked down, and ran again blindly, butting into trees and stones.

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**Who acts:** bear · **What happens:** pick up, run, knock down, butt · **To what, where:** bear, trees

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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 (bear), 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:pg2892:8:12
# text = He picked himself up and ran, and was knocked down, and ran again blindly, butting into trees and stones.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	blindly	blindly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	butting	butt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | bear | bear |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 2 | **run** | past | bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **knock down** | past · passive | bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart» |
| 4 | **run** | past | bear *not said here* |  |  |  | again | blindly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **butt** | gerund | bear *not said here* |  |  | trees and stones |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Location |

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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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