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title: Both went to the table to play, and they were not long playing cards… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Both went to the table to play, and they were not long playing cards when the hare ran in; and before they could stop him he was out again. Who acts: Both, bundles, hare. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 64

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Both went to the table to play, and they were not long playing cards when the hare ran in; and before they could stop him he was out again.

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**Who acts:** Both, bundles, hare · **What happens:** go, play, not be, run, stop, be · **To what, where:** table, cards, hare

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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 (Both, bundles, hare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7885:1158`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:19:64
# text = Both went to the table to play, and they were not long playing cards when the hare ran in; and before they could stop him he was out again.
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
14	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
15	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
23	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Both |  |  | the table |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | Both *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | bundles *= bundle* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **play** | gerund | bundles *= bundle* *not said here* | cards |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme |
| 5 | **run** | past | the hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stop** | could | bundles *= bundle* | hare |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality |
| 7 | **is** | past | hare |  |  |  | again | out *property* | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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