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title: But this morning he found himself quite at fault; after pacing his w… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But this morning he found himself quite at fault; after pacing his whole demesne, he returned to his house without being able to think of anything new or strange. Who acts: teller. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 5

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But this morning he found himself quite at fault; after pacing his whole demesne, he returned to his house without being able to think of anything new or strange.

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**Who acts:** teller · **What happens:** find, pace, return, be, think · **To what, where:** teller, whole demesne

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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 (teller), 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:pg7885:20:5
# text = But this morning he found himself quite at fault; after pacing his whole demesne, he returned to his house without being able to think of anything new or strange.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pacing	pace	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	demesne	demesne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
24	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	obl	_	_
29	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | teller | teller |  |  | morning |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 2 | **pace** | gerund | teller *not said here* | teller's whole demesne |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location demesne=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | past | teller |  |  |  |  | to teller's house *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | teller *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | teller *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of anything | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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