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title: The Carl stumped to a near-by wood, and he never rested until he had… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Carl stumped to a near-by wood, and he never rested until he had felled and tied together twenty-four couples of big timber. Who acts: Carl. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 6

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The Carl stumped to a near-by wood, and he never rested until he had felled and tied together twenty-four couples of big timber.

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**Who acts:** Carl · **What happens:** stump, not rest, fell, tie · **To what, where:** near wood, four couples

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl), 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:pg2892:51:6
# text = The Carl stumped to a near-by wood, and he never rested until he had felled and tied together twenty-four couples of big timber.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stumped	stump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	felled	fell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	couples	couple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stump** | past | the Carl |  |  | a near wood |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to wood=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **rest** | past | Carl |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fell** | past · perfect | Carl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tie** | participle | Carl *not said here* | four couples of big timber |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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