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title: So they crept near the window, and there they saw six robbers inside… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they crept near the window, and there they saw six robbers inside, with pistols, and blunderbushes, and cutlashes, sitting at a table, eating roast beef and pork, and drinking mulled beer, and wine, and whisky punch. Who acts: people. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 51

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So they crept near the window, and there they saw six robbers inside, with pistols, and blunderbushes, and cutlashes, sitting at a table, eating roast beef and pork, and drinking mulled beer, and wine, and whisky punch.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** creep, see, blunderbush, sit, eat, mull · **To what, where:** cutlashes, window, six robbers, table, roast beef

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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 (people), 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:pg7885:18:51
# text = So they crept near the window, and there they saw six robbers inside, with pistols, and blunderbushes, and cutlashes, sitting at a table, eating roast beef and pork, and drinking mulled beer, and wine, and whisky punch.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pistols	pistol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	blunderbushes	blunderbush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cutlashes	cutlash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	conj	_	_
31	roast	roast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	pork	pork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
38	mulled	mull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	amod	_	_
39	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	whisky	whisky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	punch	punch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | people | cutlashes |  | the window |  | drinking mulled beer *obl*; wine *obl*; whisky punch *obl* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near window=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | past | people | six robbers |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer robber=Stimulus |
| 3 | **blunderbush** | present | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  | a table |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
| 5 | **eat** | gerund | people *not said here* | roast beef and pork |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beef=Patient |
| 6 | **mull** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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