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title: And Kaw of North Britain came and shaved his beard, skin and flesh c… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Kaw of North Britain came and shaved his beard, skin and flesh clean off to the very bone from ear to ear. Who acts: Kaw, beard. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 158

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And Kaw of North Britain came and shaved his beard, skin and flesh clean off to the very bone from ear to ear.

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**Who acts:** Kaw, beard · **What happens:** come, shave, clean off

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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 (Kaw, beard), 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:pg7885:17:158
# text = And Kaw of North Britain came and shaved his beard, skin and flesh clean off to the very bone from ear to ear.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Kaw	Kaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shaved	shave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	clean	clean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Kaw of North Britain |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shave** | past | Kaw of North Britain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **clean off** | present | Kaw's beard and skin and flesh |  |  |  |  | to the bone from ear to ear | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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