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title: “Until the end of eternity,” he roared, “and until the very last mom… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Until the end of eternity,” he roared, “and until the very last moment of doom I will not move one foot in a race with this greasy, big-hoofed, ill-assembled resemblance of a beggarman.” Who acts: Cael, Dear heart. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependenc
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 6

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“Until the end of eternity,” he roared, “and until the very last moment of doom I will not move one foot in a race with this greasy, big-hoofed, ill-assembled resemblance of a beggarman.”

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**Who acts:** Cael, Dear heart · **What happens:** roar, not move, hoof, assemble · **To what, where:** one foot, race · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cael, Dear heart), 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:pg2892:50:6
# text = “Until the end of eternity,” he roared, “and until the very last moment of doom I will not move one foot in a race with this greasy, big-hoofed, ill-assembled resemblance of a beggarman.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Until	until	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	eternity	eternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	until	until	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
31	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	nsubj	_	_
32	greasy	greasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	hoofed	hoof	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** | past | Cael |  |  |  | until the end of eternity |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **not** **move** *in a quote* | future | Dear heart *= heart* | one foot |  | a race with greasy ill assembled resemblance of a beggarman |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 3 | **hoof** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **assemble** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «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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