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title: But here was rejoicing, that she should come home alive and whole, a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But here was rejoicing, that she should come home alive and whole, and this great captain with the beast's head full of blood in his hand. Who acts: beast. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 106

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But here was rejoicing, that she should come home alive and whole, and this great captain with the beast's head full of blood in his hand.

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**Who acts:** beast · **What happens:** rejoice, come · **To what, where:** great captain

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast), 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:pg7885:21:106
# text = But here was rejoicing, that she should come home alive and whole, and this great captain with the beast's head full of blood in his hand.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | past · progressive |  | this great captain with the beast's head in General's hand |  | here |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | should | beast |  |  |  |  | alive, home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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