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title: Away they went, through bogs, up hills, down dales, and sometimes al… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Away they went, through bogs, up hills, down dales, and sometimes along the yellow high road, till they came to the hall-door of the Lord of Dunlavin, and who should be there, airing his powdered head, his white stockings, and his red breeches, but the thief of a porter. Who acts: comrades. A senten
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 94

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Away they went, through bogs, up hills, down dales, and sometimes along the yellow high road, till they came to the hall-door of the Lord of Dunlavin, and who should be there, airing his powdered head, his white stockings, and his red breeches, but the thief of a porter.

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**Who acts:** comrades · **What happens:** go, come, be, air, powder · **To what, where:** red breeches, bogs, hall door, powdered head

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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 (comrades), 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:pg7885:18:94
# text = Away they went, through bogs, up hills, down dales, and sometimes along the yellow high road, till they came to the hall-door of the Lord of Dunlavin, and who should be there, airing his powdered head, his white stockings, and his red breeches, but the thief of a porter.
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bogs	bog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dales	dale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
16	along	along	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Dunlavin	Dunlavin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
38	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
40	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	airing	air	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	powdered	powder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	amod	_	_
45	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	stockings	stocking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | comrades *= comrade* | Dunlavin's red breeches |  | bogs and hills |  | down dales; along the yellow high road; the thief of a porter *obl*; away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through bog=Initial\_Location down dale=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | past | comrades *= comrade* |  |  | the hall door of the Lord of Dunlavin |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | should |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **air** | gerund | comrades *= comrade* *not said here* | Dunlavin's powdered head and Dunlavin's white stockings |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 5 | **powder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: 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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