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title: Four white trefoils sprang up wherever she trod, and therefore was s… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Four white trefoils sprang up wherever she trod, and therefore was she called Olwen. Who acts: Four white trefoils, 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 54

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Four white trefoils sprang up wherever she trod, and therefore was she called Olwen.

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**Who acts:** Four white trefoils, Olwen · **What happens:** sprang up, tread, call · **To what, where:** Olwen · **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 (Four white trefoils, 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:pg7885:17:54
# text = Four white trefoils sprang up wherever she trod, and therefore was she called Olwen.
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trefoils	trefoil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sprang	sprang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	trod	tread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
15	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprang up** | present | Four white trefoils |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tread** | past | Olwen |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | past · passive |  | Olwen |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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