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title: So he held his trews tight, and let no darkness grow under his feet,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he held his trews tight, and let no darkness grow under his feet, until he had reached Saddell Castle. Who acts: tailor, darkness. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 26

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So he held his trews tight, and let no darkness grow under his feet, until he had reached Saddell Castle.

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**Who acts:** tailor, darkness · **What happens:** hold, let, grow, reach · **To what, where:** trews, feet, Saddell Castle

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, darkness), 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:pg7885:12:26
# text = So he held his trews tight, and let no darkness grow under his feet, until he had reached Saddell Castle.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	trews	trew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	xcomp	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
21	Saddell	Saddell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | tailor | tailor's trews |  |  |  | tight *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trew=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | present | no darkness |  |  | tailor's feet |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location |
| 4 | **reach** | past · perfect | tailor | Saddell Castle |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=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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