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title: And though they lived to the uttermost end of time, the hound would… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And though they lived to the uttermost end of time, the hound would never touch a hare again, and the lad took good care to keep his eyes open. Who acts: lads, hound, lad. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 119

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And though they lived to the uttermost end of time, the hound would never touch a hare again, and the lad took good care to keep his eyes open.

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**Who acts:** lads, hound, lad · **What happens:** live, not touch, take, keep · **To what, where:** hare, good care, eyes

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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 (lads, hound, lad), 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:pg7885:20:119
# text = And though they lived to the uttermost end of time, the hound would never touch a hare again, and the lad took good care to keep his eyes open.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	uttermost	uttermost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | lads *= lad* |  |  |  | to the uttermost end of time |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | would | the hound | a hare |  |  | again |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hare=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | the lad | good care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the lad *not said here* | O'Donnell's eyes |  |  |  | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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