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title: He caught up on the Carl at last, for the latter had stopped to eat… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He caught up on the Carl at last, for the latter had stopped to eat blackberries from the bushes on the road, and when he drew nigh, Cael began to jeer and sneer angrily at the Carl. Who acts: Cael, latter. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 18

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He caught up on the Carl at last, for the latter had stopped to eat blackberries from the bushes on the road, and when he drew nigh, Cael began to jeer and sneer angrily at the Carl.

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**Who acts:** Cael, latter · **What happens:** catch up, stop, eat, draw, begin, jeer · **To what, where:** Carl, blackberries, bushes

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cael, latter), 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:pg2892:52:18
# text = He caught up on the Carl at last, for the latter had stopped to eat blackberries from the bushes on the road, and when he drew nigh, Cael began to jeer and sneer angrily at the Carl.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	latter	latter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
29	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
31	Cael	Cael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	jeer	jeer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	sneer	sneer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
37	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch up** | past | Cael |  |  | the Carl |  | at last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at last=Asset |
| 2 | **stop** | past · perfect | the latter |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the latter *not said here* | blackberries |  | the bushes on the road |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackberry=Patient |
| 4 | **draw** | past | Cael |  |  |  |  | nigh *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **begin** | past | Cael |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **jeer** | to-infinitive | Cael *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sneer** | infinitive | Cael *not said here* |  |  | the Carl |  | angrily *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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