--- title: And all at once they stopped, quaking and mazed and skeery, for ther… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And all at once they stopped, quaking and mazed and skeery, for there was the great stone, half in, half out of the water, for all the world like a strange big coffin; and at the head was the black snag, stretching out its two arms in a dark gruesome cross, and on it a tiddy light flickered, like a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/25/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [More English Fairy Tales, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/25/) / 3 # More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 3 And all at once they stopped, quaking and mazed and skeery, for there was the great stone, half in, half out of the water, for all the world like a strange big coffin; and at the head was the black snag, stretching out its two arms in a dark gruesome cross, and on it a tiddy light flickered, like a dying candle. **Who acts:** darklings, black snag, tiddy light · **What happens:** stop, quake, maze, be, stretch out, flicker · **To what, where:** water, great stone, black snag, head, two arms, cross This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (darklings, black snag, tiddy light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:25:3 # text = And all at once they stopped, quaking and mazed and skeery, for there was the great stone, half in, half out of the water, for all the world like a strange big coffin; and at the head was the black snag, stretching out its two arms in a dark gruesome cross, and on it a tiddy light flickered, like a dying candle. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 all all ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 3 at at SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 advmod _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 quaking quake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 mazed maze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 skeery skeery NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 16 expl _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 19 conj _ _ 22 in in ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 28 advmod _ _ 25 out out ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 coffin coffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 snag snag NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 stretching stretch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 acl _ _ 50 out out ADP RP _ 49 compound:prt _ _ 51 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 52 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 53 nummod _ _ 53 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obj _ _ 54 in in ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 56 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 57 gruesome gruesome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 61 on on ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 62 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 66 obl _ _ 63 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 64 tiddy tiddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 compound _ _ 65 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nsubj _ _ 66 flickered flicker VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 67 , , PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ _ 68 like like ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 69 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 70 dying die VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 71 amod _ _ 71 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | past | darklings *= darkling* | | | | | all, once *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **quake** | gerund | darklings *= darkling* *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **maze** | past | darklings *= darkling* *not said here* | | | the water | | for all world like a strange big coffin | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | | the great stone and half | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | darklings *= darkling* *not said here* | the black snag | | the head | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stretch out** | gerund | the black snag *not said here* | snag's two arms | | | | in a dark gruesome cross | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Patient in cross=Topic | | 7 | **flicker** | past | a tiddy light | | | cross | | like a dying candle | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location | | 8 | **die** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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. **Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/25/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/25/4/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/25/)