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title: “Stop,” roared Fergus, “stop that forever,” and he grew very red in… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Stop,” roared Fergus, “stop that forever,” and he grew very red in the face, and stared truculently down along his nose. Who acts: Fergus. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 28

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“Stop,” roared Fergus, “stop that forever,” and he grew very red in the face, and stared truculently down along his nose.

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**Who acts:** Fergus · **What happens:** stop, roar, grow, stare · **To what, where:** Fergus, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fergus), 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:pg2892:31:28
# text = “Stop,” roared Fergus, “stop that forever,” and he grew very red in the face, and stared truculently down along his nose.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	_
11	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	truculently	truculently	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	along	along	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **roar** | past |  | Fergus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | that |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality that=Eventuality |
| 4 | **grow** | past | Fergus |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stare** | past |  |  |  |  |  | along Fergus's nose; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent along nose=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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