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title: For some time he got on pretty well, until he felt the floor all of… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For some time he got on pretty well, until he felt the floor all of a tremble under his feet; and looking about him, but keeping his fingers at work, he saw the appearance of a great human head rising up through the stone pavement of the church. Who acts: tailor, great human head. A sentence of «Cel
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 8

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For some time he got on pretty well, until he felt the floor all of a tremble under his feet; and looking about him, but keeping his fingers at work, he saw the appearance of a great human head rising up through the stone pavement of the church.

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**Who acts:** tailor, great human head · **What happens:** get on, feel, look, keep, see, rise up · **To what, where:** time, floor, fingers, work, appearance, stone pavement

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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, great human head), 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:pg7885:12:8
# text = For some time he got on pretty well, until he felt the floor all of a tremble under his feet; and looking about him, but keeping his fingers at work, he saw the appearance of a great human head rising up through the stone pavement of the church.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tremble	tremble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
24	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
44	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	acl	_	_
45	up	up	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
46	through	through	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get on** | past | tailor | some time *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus |
| 2 | **feel** | past | tailor | the floor |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent floor=Theme all=Eventuality |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about tailor | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | gerund | tailor *not said here* | tailor's fingers |  | work |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent finger=Theme at work=Location |
| 5 | **see** | past | tailor | the appearance of a great human head |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer appearance=Stimulus |
| 6 | **rise up** | gerund | a great human head *not said here* |  |  | the stone pavement of the church |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through pavement=Location |

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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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