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title: At once he went to meet the beast, but _there_ was Cloopersteich and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At once he went to meet the beast, but _there_ was Cloopersteich and Claperstich, spluttering, splashing, raving, and roaring on the beast! Who acts: man. 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 114

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At once he went to meet the beast, but \_there\_ was Cloopersteich and Claperstich, spluttering, splashing, raving, and roaring on the beast!

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** go, meet, be, splutter, splash, rave · **To what, where:** beast, Cloopersteich

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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 (man), 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:pg7885:21:114
# text = At once he went to meet the beast, but _there_ was Cloopersteich and Claperstich, spluttering, splashing, raving, and roaring on the beast!
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	Cloopersteich	Cloopersteich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Claperstich	Claperstich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	spluttering	splutter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	splashing	splash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	raving	rave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	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 | **go** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the beast |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | Cloopersteich and Claperstich |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **splutter** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **splash** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **rave** *speech: other* | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **roar** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  | the beast |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beast=Location |

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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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