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title: One morning the story-teller arose early, and as his custom was, str… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning the story-teller arose early, and as his custom was, strolled out into his garden turning over in his mind incidents which he might weave into a story for the king at night. Who acts: story teller, garden, mind incidents. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-tel
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 4

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One morning the story-teller arose early, and as his custom was, strolled out into his garden turning over in his mind incidents which he might weave into a story for the king at night.

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**Who acts:** story teller, garden, mind incidents · **What happens:** arise, stroll out, turn over, weave · **To what, where:** garden, mind incidents, story

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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 (story teller, garden, mind incidents), 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:pg7885:20:4
# text = One morning the story-teller arose early, and as his custom was, strolled out into his garden turning over in his mind incidents which he might weave into a story for the king at night.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	strolled	stroll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	weave	weave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | the story teller |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stroll out** | past · passive | the story teller *not said here* |  |  | teller's garden |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: into garden=Destination |
| 3 | **turn over** | gerund | teller's garden *not said here* |  |  | teller's mind incidents |  | over *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **weave** | might | teller's mind incidents |  |  | a story | night | for the king | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent into story=Product for king=Beneficiary |

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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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