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title: When they came to the eagle, Gwrhyr asked it the same question; but… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came to the eagle, Gwrhyr asked it the same question; but it replied, "I have been here for a great space of time, and when I first came hither there was a rock here, from the top of which I pecked at the stars every evening, and now it is not so much as a span high. Who acts: animals, Gwr
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 129

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When they came to the eagle, Gwrhyr asked it the same question; but it replied, "I have been here for a great space of time, and when I first came hither there was a rock here, from the top of which I pecked at the stars every evening, and now it is not so much as a span high.

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**Who acts:** animals, Gwrhyr, eagle, rock · **What happens:** come, ask, reply, be, peck, not be · **To what, where:** same question, eagle, top · **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 (animals, Gwrhyr, eagle, rock), 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:pg7885:17:129
# text = When they came to the eagle, Gwrhyr asked it the same question; but it replied, "I have been here for a great space of time, and when I first came hither there was a rock here, from the top of which I pecked at the stars every evening, and now it is not so much as a span high.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	Gwrhyr	Gwrhyr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	parataxis	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	advmod	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
36	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	38	expl	_	_
38	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
41	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	obl	_	_
48	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	pecked	peck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
53	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	54	det	_	_
54	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
57	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	62	advmod	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
59	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
60	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	62	advmod	_	_
61	so	so	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
63	as	as	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	_
66	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  | to the eagle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to eagle=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Gwrhyr | the same question | eagle |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | eagle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Gwrhyr |  |  |  |  | for a great space of time; here *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Gwrhyr |  |  |  |  | first, hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | past | a rock |  |  | the top; here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **peck** *in a quote* | past | Gwrhyr |  |  |  | evening | of the top; at the stars | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at star=Patient |
| 8 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | eagle |  |  |  | now | as a span; much *property* | tree rules |

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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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