--- title: Going looking for a hound, hound to hunt deer, deer to swim water, w… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Going looking for a hound, hound to hunt deer, deer to swim water, water to wet flag, flag to edge axe, axe to cut a rod, a rod to make a gad, a gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one." Who acts: Manachar. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Munachar and Manachar, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [Munachar and Manachar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/) / 31 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 31 Going looking for a hound, hound to hunt deer, deer to swim water, water to wet flag, flag to edge axe, axe to cut a rod, a rod to make a gad, a gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one." **Who acts:** Manachar · **What happens:** go, look, hunt, swim, cut, make · **To what, where:** deer, water, rod, gad, raspberries This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Munachar and Manachar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manachar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:14:31 # text = Going looking for a hound, hound to hunt deer, deer to swim water, water to wet flag, flag to edge axe, axe to cut a rod, a rod to make a gad, a gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one." 1 Going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hound hound NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 hound hound NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 24 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 gad gad NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 gad gad NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl _ _ 44 Manachar Manachar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 47 nsubj _ _ 47 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 ccomp _ _ 48 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 raspberries raspberry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ _ 50 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 51 det _ _ 51 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | for a hound and hound and deer | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for hound=Theme | | 3 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | | deer | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | | 4 | **swim** | to-infinitive | | water and water | | | | to wet flag and flag and edge axe and axe and a rod | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory | | 5 | **cut** | to-infinitive | | a rod | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rod=Product | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | | a gad | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gad=Product | | 7 | **hang** | to-infinitive | | a gad *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **eat** | past | Manachar | my raspberries | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/32/) - ↑ back to [Munachar and Manachar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/)