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title: Shaking the bright drops from their hair and gliding to the shore, t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Shaking the bright drops from their hair and gliding to the shore, they wandered about amongst his flock. Who acts: drops. 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 4

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Shaking the bright drops from their hair and gliding to the shore, they wandered about amongst his flock.

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**Who acts:** drops · **What happens:** shake, glide, wander · **To what, where:** bright drops, hair, shore, flock

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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 (drops), 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:pg7885:11:4
# text = Shaking the bright drops from their hair and gliding to the shore, they wandered about amongst his flock.
1	Shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | gerund | drops *= drop* *not said here* | the bright drops |  | drops's hair |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent drop=Theme from hair=Trajectory |
| 2 | **glide** | gerund | drops *= drop* *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination |
| 3 | **wander** | past | drops *= drop* |  |  | shepherd's flock |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst flock=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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