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title: Then Arthur sent messengers to every land within his dominions to se… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Arthur sent messengers to every land within his dominions to seek for the maiden; and at the end of the year Arthur's messengers returned without having gained any knowledge or information concerning Olwen more than on the first day. Who acts: Arthur, information. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Ta
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 16

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Then Arthur sent messengers to every land within his dominions to seek for the maiden; and at the end of the year Arthur's messengers returned without having gained any knowledge or information concerning Olwen more than on the first day.

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**Who acts:** Arthur, information · **What happens:** send, seek, return, gain, concern · **To what, where:** messengers, land, end, knowledge, more

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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 (Arthur, information), 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:pg7885:17:16
# text = Then Arthur sent messengers to every land within his dominions to seek for the maiden; and at the end of the year Arthur's messengers returned without having gained any knowledge or information concerning Olwen more than on the first day.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	within	within	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dominions	dominion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	aux	_	_
30	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	ccomp	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
36	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	obj	_	_
38	than	than	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	42	amod	_	_
42	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Arthur | messengers |  | every land | then | within Arthur's dominions | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to land=Destination |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Arthur *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the maiden | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for maiden=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | past | Arthur *not said here* |  |  |  | at the end of the year  Arthur's messengers |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gain** | gerund · perfect | Arthur *not said here* | any knowledge or information |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme |
| 5 | **concern** | gerund | information *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer |

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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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