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title: On the one side Mabon the son of Modron spurred his steed and snatch… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the one side Mabon the son of Modron spurred his steed and snatched his razor from him, whilst Kay came up with him on the other side and took from him the scissors. Who acts: son, Kay. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 151

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On the one side Mabon the son of Modron spurred his steed and snatched his razor from him, whilst Kay came up with him on the other side and took from him the scissors.

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**Who acts:** son, Kay · **What happens:** spur, snatch, come up, take · **To what, where:** steed, one side, razor, other side, scissors

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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, Kay), 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:pg7885:17:151
# text = On the one side Mabon the son of Modron spurred his steed and snatched his razor from him, whilst Kay came up with him on the other side and took from him the scissors.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Modron	Modron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	spurred	spur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	razor	razor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	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	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spur** | past | the son of Modron | son's steed |  | the one side |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient |
| 2 | **snatch** | past | the son of Modron *not said here* | son's razor |  |  |  | from son | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent razor=Theme from he=Source |
| 3 | **come up** | past | Kay |  |  | the other side |  | with son | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
| 4 | **take** | past | Kay *not said here* | the scissors |  |  |  | from son | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme from he=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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