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title: Now, there was no way of getting to this island, for the sea-maiden… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, there was no way of getting to this island, for the sea-maiden would sink each boat and raft that would go on the loch. Who acts: way, sea maiden, raft. 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 158

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Now, there was no way of getting to this island, for the sea-maiden would sink each boat and raft that would go on the loch.

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**Who acts:** way, sea maiden, raft · **What happens:** be, get, sink, go · **To what, where:** boat, loch

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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 (way, sea maiden, raft), 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:pg7885:21:158
# text = Now, there was no way of getting to this island, for the sea-maiden would sink each boat and raft that would go on the loch.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	loch	loch	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 | **be** | past | no way |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | no way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to this island *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to island=Result |
| 3 | **sink** | would | the sea maiden | each boat and raft |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | would | raft |  |  | the loch |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on loch=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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