--- title: In vain did he take refuge with his wife, she kicked him back again… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: In vain did he take refuge with his wife, she kicked him back again to the hounds, until at length the beggar stopped the hounds, and with a stroke of the wand, panting and breathless, the story-teller stood before them again. Who acts: man, wife, beggar, wand. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife, beggar, wand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:20:66 # text = In vain did he take refuge with his wife, she kicked him back again to the hounds, until at length the beggar stopped the hounds, and with a stroke of the wand, panting and breathless, the story-teller stood before them again. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 refuge refuge NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 kicked kick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hounds hound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 until until SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 beggar beggar NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hounds hound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 wand wand NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 panting pant VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 breathless breathless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 teller teller NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 46 before before ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obl _ _ 48 again again ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past · do-support | man | refuge | | vain | | with man's wife | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in vain=Location | | 2 | **kick back** | past | wife | man | | | again | to the hounds *result* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to hound=Result | | 3 | **stop** | past | the beggar | the hounds | | length | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality hound=Eventuality | | 4 | **pant** | gerund | the wand *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stand** | past | the story teller | | | | before hounds *= hound*; again | with a stroke of the wand | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location | | 6 | **stroke** | | | the wand | | | | | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/67/) - ↑ back to [The Story-teller At Fault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/)