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title: Her man was mournful, tearful, wandering down and up about the banks… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Her man was mournful, tearful, wandering down and up about the banks of the loch, by day and night. 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 155

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Her man was mournful, tearful, wandering down and up about the banks of the loch, by day and night.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, wonder

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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:pg7885:21:155
# text = Her man was mournful, tearful, wandering down and up about the banks of the loch, by day and night.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	tearful	tearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	loch	loch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Sorrowful's man |  |  |  |  | mournful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Sorrowful's man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Sorrowful's man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the banks of the loch and day and night; down *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about bank=Stimulus |

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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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