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title: A third time did the shepherd of Myddvai try to attract the maiden,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A third time did the shepherd of Myddvai try to attract the maiden, and this time he offered her bread that he had found floating about near the shore. Who acts: third time, shepherd. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 13

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A third time did the shepherd of Myddvai try to attract the maiden, and this time he offered her bread that he had found floating about near the shore.

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**Who acts:** third time, shepherd · **What happens:** do, try, attract, offer, find, float · **To what, where:** shepherd, maiden, bread, Myddvai, shore

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third time, shepherd), 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:pg7885:11:13
# text = A third time did the shepherd of Myddvai try to attract the maiden, and this time he offered her bread that he had found floating about near the shore.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Myddvai	Myddvai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
26	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	near	near	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | a third time | the shepherd |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Eventuality |
| 2 | **try** | present | the shepherd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Myddvai | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **attract** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the shepherd *not said here* | the maiden |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient |
| 4 | **offer** | past | shepherd | bread | Myddvai |  | time |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | past · perfect | shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **float** | gerund | shepherd *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near shore=Trajectory |

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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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