--- title: The king then went and sent his lads to the hunting-hill for a he-go… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The king then went and sent his lads to the hunting-hill for a he-goat, and he gave its heart and its liver to his wife to eat; and she rose well and healthy. Who acts: king, well. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/15/16/) [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/) / [Gold-tree and Silver-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/15/) / 16 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 16 The king then went and sent his lads to the hunting-hill for a he-goat, and he gave its heart and its liver to his wife to eat; and she rose well and healthy. **Who acts:** king, well · **What happens:** go, send, give, eat, rise · **To what, where:** lads, hunting hill, heart, wife This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, well), 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:pg7885:15:16 # text = The king then went and sent his lads to the hunting-hill for a he-goat, and he gave its heart and its liver to his wife to eat; and she rose well and healthy. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 lads lad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 liver liver NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the king | | | | then | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **send** | past | the king *not said here* | king's lads | | the hunting hill | | for a goat | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lad=Theme to hill=Destination | | 3 | **give** | past | king | goat's heart and goat's liver | king's wife | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heart=Theme to wife=Recipient | | 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **rise** | past | well | | | | | well *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/15/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/15/17/) - ↑ back to [Gold-tree and Silver-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/15/)