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title: That evening the Gruagach couldn't find vessels enough in all his pl… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That evening the Gruagach couldn't find vessels enough in all his place to hold the milk of the five golden cows. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 32

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That evening the Gruagach couldn't find vessels enough in all his place to hold the milk of the five golden cows.

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**What happens:** not find, hold · **To what, where:** vessels, milk

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7885:19:32
# text = That evening the Gruagach couldn't find vessels enough in all his place to hold the milk of the five golden cows.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find** | could |  | vessels |  |  | evening |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme enough=Attribute |
| 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive |  | the milk of the five golden cows |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |

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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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