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title: When they came to the Brown Lake, the sky was full of little white c… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came to the Brown Lake, the sky was full of little white clouds, and, if the sky was full, the lake was as full. Who acts: cattle, sky, lake. 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 clau
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 142

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When they came to the Brown Lake, the sky was full of little white clouds, and, if the sky was full, the lake was as full.

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**Who acts:** cattle, sky, lake · **What happens:** come, be · **To what, where:** Brown Lake

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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: who acts (cattle, sky, lake), 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:pg7885:10:142
# text = When they came to the Brown Lake, the sky was full of little white clouds, and, if the sky was full, the lake was as full.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | cattle |  |  | the Brown Lake |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | the sky |  |  |  |  | of little white clouds; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the sky |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the lake |  |  |  |  | full *property* | 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:** «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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