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title: The hero of the black horse came, and if roaring and raving were on… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The hero of the black horse came, and if roaring and raving were on the beast on the days that were passed, this day it was horrible. Who acts: hero, roaring, day. 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 126

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The hero of the black horse came, and if roaring and raving were on the beast on the days that were passed, this day it was horrible.

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**Who acts:** hero, roaring, day · **What happens:** come, roar, rave, be, pass · **To what, where:** beast, days

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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 (hero, roaring, day), 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:pg7885:21:126
# text = The hero of the black horse came, and if roaring and raving were on the beast on the days that were passed, this day it was horrible.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	raving	rave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the hero of the black horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **roar** *a condition, not said to happen* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rave** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | roaring |  |  | the beast | day |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** | past · passive |  | the days |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 6 | **is** | past | this day |  |  |  |  | horrible *property* | tree rules |

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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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