--- title: Going looking for butter, butter to go in claw of hound, hound to hu… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Going looking for butter, butter to go in claw of 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 Jac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/36/) [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/) / 36 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 36 Going looking for butter, butter to go in claw of 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:** claw, 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:pg7885:14:36 # text = Going looking for butter, butter to go in claw of 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 _ 4 case _ _ 4 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 hound hound NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 hound hound NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 17 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 31 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 gad gad NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 gad gad NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 appos _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 acl _ _ 51 Manachar Manachar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 54 nsubj _ _ 54 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 ccomp _ _ 55 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 56 raspberries raspberry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 obj _ _ 57 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 58 det _ _ 58 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 " " 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 butter and butter | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for butter=Theme | | 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | claw of hound and hound | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in claw=Location | | 4 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | | deer and deer | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | | 5 | **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 | | 6 | **cut** | to-infinitive | | a rod | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rod=Product | | 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | | a gad | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gad=Product | | 8 | **hang** | to-infinitive | | a gad *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/37/) - ↑ back to [Munachar and Manachar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/)