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title: In the evening when he took them home they had not much milk, the pl… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the evening when he took them home they had not much milk, the place was so bare, and his meat and drink was but spare that night. Who acts: hardship, cattle, place, meat. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 36

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In the evening when he took them home they had not much milk, the place was so bare, and his meat and drink was but spare that night.

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**Who acts:** hardship, cattle, place, meat · **What happens:** take, have, be · **To what, where:** cattle, much milk

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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 (hardship, cattle, place, meat), 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:pg7885:21:36
# text = In the evening when he took them home they had not much milk, the place was so bare, and his meat and drink was but spare that night.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | hardship | cattle |  |  | evening | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | cattle | much milk |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the place | much milk *not said here* |  |  |  | bare *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | hardship's meat and drink |  |  |  | night | spare *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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