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title: They hurried on; and when within three miles of the king's castle th… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They hurried on; and when within three miles of the king's castle there was such a throng of people that no one could go a step ahead. " Who acts: sons, people. 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 81

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They hurried on; and when within three miles of the king's castle there was such a throng of people that no one could go a step ahead. "

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**Who acts:** sons, people · **What happens:** hurry on, be, go · **To what, where:** throng, step

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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 (sons, people), 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:pg7885:19:81
# text = They hurried on; and when within three miles of the king's castle there was such a throng of people that no one could go a step ahead. "
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
7	within	within	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	throng	throng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry on** | past | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | such throng |  |  |  | of people | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | could | people | a step |  |  |  | ahead *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme |

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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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