--- title: So they all shook themselves, and went on through grass, and rocks,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So they all shook themselves, and went on through grass, and rocks, and briars, till they got down into a hollow, and there was the light coming through the shadow, and along with it came singing, and laughing, and cursing. Who acts: cabin, light. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/49/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [Jack and His Comrades](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/) / 49 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 49 So they all shook themselves, and went on through grass, and rocks, and briars, till they got down into a hollow, and there was the light coming through the shadow, and along with it came singing, and laughing, and cursing. **Who acts:** cabin, light · **What happens:** shake, go on, get down, be, come, sing · **To what, where:** cabin, grass, hollow, shadow, light This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cabin, light), 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:pg7885:18:49 # text = So they all shook themselves, and went on through grass, and rocks, and briars, till they got down into a hollow, and there was the light coming through the shadow, and along with it came singing, and laughing, and cursing. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 advmod _ _ 4 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 on on ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 through through ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 briars briar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 till till SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 down down ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 29 expl _ _ 29 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 32 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 33 through through ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 along along ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ _ 41 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 42 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 cursing curse VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shake** | past | cabin | cabin | | | | rocks and briars *obl* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 2 | **go on** | past | cabin *not said here* | | | grass | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through grass=Location | | 3 | **get down** | past | cabin | | | a hollow | | down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **be** | past | the light | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come** | gerund | the light *not said here* | | | the shadow | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through shadow=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **come** | past | cabin *not said here* | | | light | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along it=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | cabin *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **laugh** | gerund | cabin *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **curse** | gerund | cabin *not said here* | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/50/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Comrades](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/)