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title: To the margin of this lake the shepherd of Myddvai once led his lamb… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: To the margin of this lake the shepherd of Myddvai once led his lambs, and lay there whilst they sought pasture. Who acts: shepherd, lambs. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 2

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To the margin of this lake the shepherd of Myddvai once led his lambs, and lay there whilst they sought pasture.

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**Who acts:** shepherd, lambs · **What happens:** lead, lay, seek · **To what, where:** lambs, margin, pasture

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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 (shepherd, lambs), 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:pg7885:11:2
# text = To the margin of this lake the shepherd of Myddvai once led his lambs, and lay there whilst they sought pasture.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	margin	margin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Myddvai	Myddvai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
12	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
19	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
22	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the shepherd of Myddvai | shepherd's lambs |  | the margin of this lake |  | once *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme to margin=Destination |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive | the shepherd of Myddvai *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seek** | past | lambs *= lamb* | pasture |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasture=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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