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title: The fairy vessel hesitated, then stopped stock-still not forty paces… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The fairy vessel hesitated, then stopped stock-still not forty paces from dry land. Who acts: fairy vessel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 6

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The fairy vessel hesitated, then stopped stock-still not forty paces from dry land.

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**Who acts:** fairy vessel · **What happens:** hesitate, stop · **To what, where:** fairy vessel, stock

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy vessel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:19:6
# text = The fairy vessel hesitated, then stopped stock-still not forty paces from dry land.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	paces	pace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hesitate** | participle |  | the fairy vessel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | past | the fairy vessel | stock |  |  | then | forty paces *obj* | tree rules |

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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:** «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (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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