--- title: In the morning the master of the house went into the next room, took… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: In the morning the master of the house went into the next room, took down the twelve iron loops with a wooden one, brought them out, and asked the cowboy which would he take, the twelve iron or the one wooden loop. Who acts: master, cowboy. 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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 (master, cowboy), 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:pg7885:19:74 # text = In the morning the master of the house went into the next room, took down the twelve iron loops with a wooden one, brought them out, and asked the cowboy which would he take, the twelve iron or the one wooden loop. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 loops loop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cowboy cowboy NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 45 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 loop loop NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the master of the house | | | the next room | morning | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **take down** | past | | the twelve iron loops | | | | with a wooden one | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loop=Theme | | 3 | **bring out** | past | | loops *= loop* | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the master of the house *not said here* | the twelve iron or the one wooden loop | the cowboy | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cowboy=Recipient | | 5 | **take** | would | the cowboy | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/75/) - ↑ back to [The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/)