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title: And to this day is the furrow seen which the plough left as it was d… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And to this day is the furrow seen which the plough left as it was dragged across the mountains to the tarn. Who acts: furrow. 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 37

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And to this day is the furrow seen which the plough left as it was dragged across the mountains to the tarn.

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**Who acts:** furrow · **What happens:** be, see, plough, leave, drag · **To what, where:** furrow, seen plough, plough, mountains

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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 (furrow), 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:pg7885:11:37
# text = And to this day is the furrow seen which the plough left as it was dragged across the mountains to the tarn.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	furrow	furrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
17	across	across	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tarn	tarn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the furrow |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **plough** |  | the furrow |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | participle |  | the seen plough *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **drag** | past · passive |  | plough |  | the mountains |  | to the tarn | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to tarn=Destination |

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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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