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title: They entered the house, and after meat she told them that the maiden… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They entered the house, and after meat she told them that the maiden Olwen came there every Saturday to wash. Who acts: affections, woman, maiden Olwen. 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 48

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They entered the house, and after meat she told them that the maiden Olwen came there every Saturday to wash.

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**Who acts:** affections, woman, maiden Olwen · **What happens:** enter, tell, come, wash · **To what, where:** house, affections · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (affections, woman, maiden Olwen), 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:pg7885:17:48
# text = They entered the house, and after meat she told them that the maiden Olwen came there every Saturday to wash.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | affections *= affection* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | woman |  | affections *= affection* |  | after meat |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | past | the maiden Olwen |  |  | there | saturday |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wash** | to-infinitive | the maiden Olwen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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