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title: From first to last he told all that had befallen him; so long and lo… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: From first to last he told all that had befallen him; so long and loud laughed the king that he couldn't go to sleep at all. Who acts: you, man, that. 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 170

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From first to last he told all that had befallen him; so long and loud laughed the king that he couldn't go to sleep at all.

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**Who acts:** you, man, that · **What happens:** last, tell, befall, laugh, not go, sleep · **To what, where:** man, king, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, man, that), 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:pg7885:20:170
# text = From first to last he told all that had befallen him; so long and loud laughed the king that he couldn't go to sleep at all.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	last	last	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **befall** | past · perfect | that | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **laugh** | past | you *not said here* | the king |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **go** | could | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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