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title: Brindle cow, white speckled, Spotted cow, bold freckled, Old white f… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Brindle cow, white speckled, Spotted cow, bold freckled, Old white face, and gray Geringer, And the white bull from the king's coast, Grey ox, and black calf, All, all, follow me home, Who acts: Brindle cow, All. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai, with its 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 34

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Brindle cow, white speckled, Spotted cow, bold freckled, Old white face, and gray Geringer, And the white bull from the king's coast, Grey ox, and black calf, All, all, follow me home,

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**Who acts:** Brindle cow, All · **What happens:** speckle, spot, freckle, gray, follow · **To what, where:** Spotted cow, bold, Geringer, me

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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 (Brindle cow, All), 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:pg7885:11:34
# text = Brindle cow, white speckled, Spotted cow, bold freckled, Old white face, and gray Geringer, And the white bull from the king's coast, Grey ox, and black calf, All, all, follow me home,
1	Brindle	brindle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	speckled	speckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bold	bold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	freckled	freckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	gray	gray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	Geringer	Geringer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
40	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
42	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
43	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	home	home	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speckle** | participle | Brindle cow and the white bull from the king's coast and Grey ox and black calf *not said here* | Spotted cow and bold and Old white face |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **freckle** | participle |  | bold *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **gray** | infinitive | Brindle cow and the white bull from the king's coast and Grey ox and black calf *not said here* | Geringer |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent geringer=Patient |
| 5 | **follow** | infinitive | All | me |  |  |  | home *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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