--- title: Before her death she charged the king that he should not take a wife… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Before her death she charged the king that he should not take a wife again until he saw a briar with two blossoms upon her grave, and the king sent every morning to see if anything were growing thereon. Who acts: mother, King, anything. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, King, anything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:17:2 # text = Before her death she charged the king that he should not take a wife again until he saw a briar with two blossoms upon her grave, and the king sent every morning to see if anything were growing thereon. 1 Before before ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 charged charge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 until until SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 briar briar NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 blossoms blossom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 upon upon ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 32 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 36 if if SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 39 nsubj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 ccomp _ _ 40 thereon thereon ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **charge** | past | mother | the king | | | before mother's death | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **take** | should | King | | a wife | | again | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | | 3 | **see** | past | King | a briar | | | | with two blossoms; upon mother's grave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer briar=Stimulus | | 4 | **send** | past | the king | | | | morning | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **grow** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | anything | | | | | thereon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **die** | | mother | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/17/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/17/3/) - ↑ back to [The Wooing of Olwen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/17/)