--- title: Silver-tree went home, and begged the king to put the long-ship in o… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Silver-tree went home, and begged the king to put the long-ship in order, and said, "I am going to see my dear Gold-tree, for it is so long since I saw her." Who acts: Silver tree, ship. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Silver tree, ship), 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:pg7885:15:26 # text = Silver-tree went home, and begged the king to put the long-ship in order, and said, "I am going to see my dear Gold-tree, for it is so long since I saw her." 1 Silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 ccomp _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 30 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 31 Gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 40 since since SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 43 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Silver tree | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Silver tree *not said here* | | the king | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | | 3 | **put** | to-infinitive | Silver tree *not said here* | the long ship | | order | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ship=Theme in order=Destination | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Silver tree *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Silver tree *= tree* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Silver tree *= tree* *not said here* | my dear Gold tree | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | ship | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **see** *in a quote* | past | Silver tree *= tree* | well | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/15/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/15/27/) - ↑ back to [Gold-tree and Silver-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/15/)