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title: She put out her little finger, and Silver-tree went and put a poison… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She put out her little finger, and Silver-tree went and put a poisoned stab in it, and Gold-tree fell dead. Who acts: mother, Silver tree, Gold tree. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 36

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She put out her little finger, and Silver-tree went and put a poisoned stab in it, and Gold-tree fell dead.

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**Who acts:** mother, Silver tree, Gold tree · **What happens:** put out, go, put, poison, fall · **To what, where:** little finger, poisoned stab, finger

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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 (mother, Silver tree, Gold tree), 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:pg7885:15:36
# text = She put out her little finger, and Silver-tree went and put a poisoned stab in it, and Gold-tree fell dead.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	stab	stab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | past | mother | mother's little finger |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal |
| 2 | **go** | past | Silver tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | past | Silver tree *not said here* | a poisoned stab |  | finger |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stab=Theme in it=Destination |
| 4 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fall** | past | Gold tree |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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