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title: Out crawled Donald; in crept the farmer. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Out crawled Donald; in crept the farmer. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 105

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Out crawled Donald; in crept the farmer.

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**What happens:** crawl, creep · **To what, where:** Donald, farmer

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7885:10:105
# text = Out crawled Donald; in crept the farmer.
1	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Donald	Donald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crawl** | past |  | Donald |  |  |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location donald=Theme |
| 2 | **creep** | past |  | the farmer |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location farmer=Theme |

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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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