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title: Five miles from Ben Edair the Carl stopped, for he had again come am… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Five miles from Ben Edair the Carl stopped, for he had again come among blackberries. Who acts: Five miles, Carl. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 44

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Five miles from Ben Edair the Carl stopped, for he had again come among blackberries.

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**Who acts:** Five miles, Carl · **What happens:** stop, come · **To what, where:** blackberries

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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 (Five miles, 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:pg2892:52:44
# text = Five miles from Ben Edair the Carl stopped, for he had again come among blackberries.
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Edair	Edair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | Five miles from Ben |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | Carl |  |  | blackberries | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among blackberry=Location |

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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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