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title: Said the otter, "If the swimming of foot on the ground of a pool wil… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Said the otter, "If the swimming of foot on the ground of a pool will loose thee, mind me, and I will be at thy side." Who acts: otter, swimming. 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 32

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Said the otter, "If the swimming of foot on the ground of a pool will loose thee, mind me, and I will be at thy side."

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**Who acts:** otter, swimming · **What happens:** say, lose, mind, be, swim · **To what, where:** thee, otter, side, foot, ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (otter, swimming), 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:pg7885:21:32
# text = Said the otter, "If the swimming of foot on the ground of a pool will loose thee, mind me, and I will be at thy side."
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	loose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
19	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the otter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | the swimming of foot on the ground of a pool | thee |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality |
| 3 | **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive | the swimming of foot on the ground of a pool *not said here* | the otter *= otter* |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the otter *= otter* |  |  | thy side |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **swim** *in a quote* |  |  | foot |  | the ground of a pool |  |  | nom swimming «act transitive»: of=patient on=place |

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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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