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title: The king, you see, was the right sort; he was the real boy, and love… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The king, you see, was the right sort; he was the real boy, and loved sport as he loved his life, and hunting in particular; and from the rising o' the sun, up he got, and away he went over the mountains after the deer; and fine times they were. Who acts: you, king, real boy, right sort. A sentence 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 3

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The king, you see, was the right sort; he was the real boy, and loved sport as he loved his life, and hunting in particular; and from the rising o' the sun, up he got, and away he went over the mountains after the deer; and fine times they were.

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**Who acts:** you, king, real boy, right sort · **What happens:** see, be, love, hunt, rise, get · **To what, where:** king, right sort, real boy, sport, life, particular

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, King O'toole and His Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king, real boy, right sort), 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:pg7885:16:3
# text = The king, you see, was the right sort; he was the real boy, and loved sport as he loved his life, and hunting in particular; and from the rising o' the sun, up he got, and away he went over the mountains after the deer; and fine times they were.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	amod	_	_
36	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	up	up	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	away	away	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
49	over	over	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
52	after	after	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl:unmarked	_	_
59	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the king | the right sort and the rising o and the sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | king | the real boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** | past | the real boy *not said here* | sport |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sport=Stimulus |
| 5 | **love** | past | king | king's life |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus |
| 6 | **hunt** | gerund | the right sort and the rising o and the sun *not said here* |  |  | particular |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in particular=Location |
| 7 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **get** | past | king | the sun *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus |
| 9 | **go** | past | king |  |  | the mountains | after the deer | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Initial\_Location |

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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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