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title: The lad ran up the thread and all three soon disappeared. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The lad ran up the thread and all three soon disappeared. Who acts: lad, three. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 110

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The lad ran up the thread and all three soon disappeared.

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**Who acts:** lad, three · **What happens:** run up, disappear · **To what, where:** thread

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, three), 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:pg7885:20:110
# text = The lad ran up the thread and all three soon disappeared.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run up** | past | the lad | the thread |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thread=Trajectory |
| 2 | **disappear** | past | all three |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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