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title: And stop nor stay of that full race, did they make none, until they… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And stop nor stay of that full race, did they make none, until they came to the brink of the sea. Who acts: you, men. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 68

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And stop nor stay of that full race, did they make none, until they came to the brink of the sea.

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**Who acts:** you, men · **What happens:** stop, stay, make, come · **To what, where:** none, brink

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, men), 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:pg7885:4:68
# text = And stop nor stay of that full race, did they make none, until they came to the brink of the sea.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of that full race | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past · do-support | men *= man* | none |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset none=Product |
| 4 | **come** | past | men *= man* |  |  | the brink of the sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to brink=Initial\_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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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