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title: Going looking for a cat, cat to scrape butter, butter to go in claw… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Going looking for a cat, cat to scrape 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, gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one." Who acts: Manachar. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy T
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 41

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Going looking for a cat, cat to scrape 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, gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one."

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**Who acts:** Manachar · **What happens:** go, look, scrape, hunt, swim, cut · **To what, where:** butter, claw, deer, water, rod, gad

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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.

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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:pg7885:14:41
# text = Going looking for a cat, cat to scrape 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, 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	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
23	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
37	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	acl	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	gad	gad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	gad	gad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	acl	_	_
56	Manachar	Manachar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	59	nsubj	_	_
59	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	ccomp	_	_
60	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obj	_	_
62	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	63	det	_	_
63	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 cat and cat | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cat=Theme |
| 3 | **scrape** | to-infinitive |  | butter and butter |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | claw of hound and hound |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in claw=Location |
| 5 | **hunt** | to-infinitive |  | deer and deer |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme |
| 6 | **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 |
| 7 | **cut** | to-infinitive |  | a rod |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rod=Product |
| 8 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a gad and gad |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gad=Product |
| 9 | **hang** | to-infinitive |  | gad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **eat** | past | Manachar | my raspberries |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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