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title: She took her harp to the sea-shore, and sat and played; and the sea-… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She took her harp to the sea-shore, and sat and played; and the sea-maiden came up to listen, for sea-maidens are fonder of music than all other creatures. Who acts: daughter, sea maiden. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 147

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She took her harp to the sea-shore, and sat and played; and the sea-maiden came up to listen, for sea-maidens are fonder of music than all other creatures.

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**Who acts:** daughter, sea maiden · **What happens:** take, sit, play, come up, listen, be · **To what, where:** harp, sea shore

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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 (daughter, sea maiden), 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:pg7885:21:147
# text = She took her harp to the sea-shore, and sat and played; and the sea-maiden came up to listen, for sea-maidens are fonder of music than all other creatures.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	fonder	fond	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	parataxis	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | daughter | daughter's harp |  | the sea shore |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent harp=Theme to shore=Destination |
| 2 | **sit** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **play** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come up** | past | the sea maiden |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **listen** | to-infinitive | the sea maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for sea maidens; of music; than all other creatures; fond *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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