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title: They reached the same place, and they were not long there when the f… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They reached the same place, and they were not long there when the fearful Laidly Beast stirred in the midst of the loch, and the hero slunk away as he did on yesterday, but it was not long after this when the man of the black horse came, with another dress on. Who acts: twas, fearful Laidly Beast, 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 108

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They reached the same place, and they were not long there when the fearful Laidly Beast stirred in the midst of the loch, and the hero slunk away as he did on yesterday, but it was not long after this when the man of the black horse came, with another dress on.

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**Who acts:** twas, fearful Laidly Beast, hero, place, man · **What happens:** reach, be, stir, slink away, do, not be · **To what, where:** same place, midst

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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 (twas, fearful Laidly Beast, hero, place), 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:pg7885:21:108
# text = They reached the same place, and they were not long there when the fearful Laidly Beast stirred in the midst of the loch, and the hero slunk away as he did on yesterday, but it was not long after this when the man of the black horse came, with another dress on.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Laidly	Laidly	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stirred	stir	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	loch	loch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	slunk	slink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
42	after	after	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	obl	_	_
44	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	51	advmod	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
51	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	55	det	_	_
55	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
56	on	on	ADP	RP	_	51	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | twas *= twa* | the same place |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | twas *= twa* |  |  |  |  | long, there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stir** | past | the fearful Laidly Beast |  |  | the midst of the loch |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location |
| 4 | **slink away** | past | the hero |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past | hero |  |  |  | yesterday |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **is** | past | place |  |  |  | after this | long *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **come on** | past | the man of the black horse |  |  |  |  | with another dress | 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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