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title: Rather he stopped it, for it slid from the mantle and sped down into… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Rather he stopped it, for it slid from the mantle and sped down into the earth to the depth of twenty-six spans; from which that slope is still called the Glen of the Mantle, and the rise on which Aillen stood is known as the Ard of Fire. Who acts: Rather, flame, Aillen. A sentence of «Irish Fairy T
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 17

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Rather he stopped it, for it slid from the mantle and sped down into the earth to the depth of twenty-six spans; from which that slope is still called the Glen of the Mantle, and the rise on which Aillen stood is known as the Ard of Fire.

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**Who acts:** Rather, flame, Aillen · **What happens:** stop, slide, speed down, call, stand, know · **To what, where:** flame, mantle, earth, slope, rise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rather, flame, Aillen), 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:pg2892:27:17
# text = Rather he stopped it, for it slid from the mantle and sped down into the earth to the depth of twenty-six spans; from which that slope is still called the Glen of the Mantle, and the rise on which Aillen stood is known as the Ard of Fire.
1	Rather	rather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	slid	slide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	spans	span	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	slope	slope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	still	still	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Glen	Glen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	xcomp	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Mantle	Mantle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	obl	_	_
45	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
49	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	Ard	Ard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | Rather | flame |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **slide** | past | flame |  |  | the mantle |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mantle=Trajectory |
| 3 | **speed down** | past | flame *not said here* |  |  | the earth to the depth of six spans |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into earth=Destination |
| 4 | **call** | present · passive |  | that slope |  |  | still |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from which=Source |
| 5 | **stand** | past | Aillen |  |  | the rise |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
| 6 | **know** | present · passive |  | the rise |  |  |  | as the Ard of Fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as ard=Attribute |

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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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