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title: On the approach of the latter, she ran out with joy to greet them, a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the approach of the latter, she ran out with joy to greet them, and sought to throw her arms about their necks. Who acts: wife. 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 44

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On the approach of the latter, she ran out with joy to greet them, and sought to throw her arms about their necks.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** run out, greet, seek, throw · **To what, where:** approach, nephew, arms

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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 (wife), 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:pg7885:17:44
# text = On the approach of the latter, she ran out with joy to greet them, and sought to throw her arms about their necks.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run out** | past | wife |  |  | the approach of the latter |  | with joy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on approach=Trajectory |
| 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* |  | nephew |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | past | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **throw** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | wife's arms |  |  |  | about nephew's necks | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme about neck=Destination |

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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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