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title: His followers then said unto Arthur, "Lord, go thou home, thou canst… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His followers then said unto Arthur, "Lord, go thou home, thou canst not proceed with thy host in quest of such small adventures as these." Who acts: followers, Lord, thou, such small adventures. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen, with its dependency tree and t
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 107

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His followers then said unto Arthur, "Lord, go thou home, thou canst not proceed with thy host in quest of such small adventures as these."

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**Who acts:** followers, Lord, thou, such small adventures · **What happens:** say, go, not proceed, quest · **To what, where:** thou, quest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (followers, Lord, thou, such small adventures), 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:pg7885:17:107
# text = His followers then said unto Arthur, "Lord, go thou home, thou canst not proceed with thy host in quest of such small adventures as these."
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
16	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Said's followers |  |  |  | then | unto Arthur | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Lord | thou |  |  |  | home *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **proceed** *in a quote* | can | thou |  |  | quest of such small adventures as these |  | with thy host | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **quest** *in a quote* |  | such small adventures as these |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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