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title: The master of the house went into the next room and brought out an i… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The master of the house went into the next room and brought out an iron and a wooden pike, and asked the cowboy which would he choose. Who acts: master, cowboy. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 70

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The master of the house went into the next room and brought out an iron and a wooden pike, and asked the cowboy which would he choose.

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**Who acts:** master, cowboy · **What happens:** go, bring out, ask, choose · **To what, where:** next room, iron, cowboy

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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 (master, cowboy), 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:pg7885:19:70
# text = The master of the house went into the next room and brought out an iron and a wooden pike, and asked the cowboy which would he choose.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the master of the house |  |  | the next room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **bring out** | past | the master of the house *not said here* | a iron and a wooden pike |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent iron=Patient |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the master of the house *not said here* |  | the cowboy |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cowboy=Recipient |
| 4 | **choose** | would | the cowboy |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «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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