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title: But when the cowboy was on the way home with the cattle, the son of… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the cowboy was on the way home with the cattle, the son of the king of Tisean came and took the giant's heads and claimed the princess in marriage when the Gruagach Gaire should laugh. Who acts: cowboy, way, Gruagach Gaire. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Ga
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 33

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But when the cowboy was on the way home with the cattle, the son of the king of Tisean came and took the giant's heads and claimed the princess in marriage when the Gruagach Gaire should laugh.

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**Who acts:** cowboy, way, Gruagach Gaire · **What happens:** be, come, take, claim, laugh · **To what, where:** way, heads, princess, marriage

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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: who acts (cowboy, way, Gruagach Gaire), 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:pg7885:19:33
# text = But when the cowboy was on the way home with the cattle, the son of the king of Tisean came and took the giant's heads and claimed the princess in marriage when the Gruagach Gaire should laugh.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Tisean	Tisean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Gaire	Gaire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the cowboy |  |  | the way |  | with the cattle; home *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the way |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | the way *not said here* | the giant's heads |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 4 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | the way *not said here* | the princess |  | marriage |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic |
| 5 | **laugh** | should | the Gruagach Gaire |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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