--- title: We ate, drank, played cards, and enjoyed ourselves, till one day whe… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: We ate, drank, played cards, and enjoyed ourselves, till one day when my sons and I were playing, a slender brown hare came rushing in, jumped on to the hearth, tossed up the ashes to the rafters and ran away. Who acts: We, sons, slender brown hare, hearth. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sons, slender brown hare, hearth), 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:pg7885:19:43 # text = We ate, drank, played cards, and enjoyed ourselves, till one day when my sons and I were playing, a slender brown hare came rushing in, jumped on to the hearth, tossed up the ashes to the rafters and ran away. 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 enjoyed enjoy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 till till ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 conj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 slender slender ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 29 rushing rush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 xcomp _ _ 30 in in ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 33 on on ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 hearth hearth NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 tossed toss VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 rafters rafter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 47 away away ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past | We | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **drink** | past | We *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **play** | past | We *not said here* | cards | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | | 4 | **enjoy** | past | We *not said here* | ourselves | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **play** | past · progressive | my sons | | | | day | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **come** | past | a slender brown hare | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **rush in** | gerund | a slender brown hare *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **jump on** | past | a slender brown hare *not said here* | | | | | to the hearth *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hearth=Result | | 9 | **toss up** | participle | the hearth *not said here* | the ashes | the rafters | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ash=Patient to rafter=Recipient | | 10 | **run away** | past | a slender brown hare *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/44/) - ↑ back to [The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/)