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title: At length, when he would fain have crossed the Severn and escaped in… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, when he would fain have crossed the Severn and escaped into Cornwall, Mabon the son of Modron came up with him, and Arthur fell upon him together with the champions of Britain. Who acts: son, Arthur. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen, with its depend
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 150

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At length, when he would fain have crossed the Severn and escaped into Cornwall, Mabon the son of Modron came up with him, and Arthur fell upon him together with the champions of Britain.

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**Who acts:** son, Arthur · **What happens:** cross, escape, come up, fall · **To what, where:** Severn, length, Cornwall

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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 (son, Arthur), 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:pg7885:17:150
# text = At length, when he would fain have crossed the Severn and escaped into Cornwall, Mabon the son of Modron came up with him, and Arthur fell upon him together with the champions of Britain.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Severn	Severn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Modron	Modron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
23	up	up	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	together	together	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | present · perfect |  | the Severn |  | length |  | fain *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent severn=Patient |
| 2 | **escape** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come up** | past | the son of Modron |  |  | Cornwall and Mabon |  | with Arthur | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into cornwall=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Arthur |  |  |  |  | upon son; with the champions of Britain; together *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=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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