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title: He got good feeding this night, meat and drink without stint, and th… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He got good feeding this night, meat and drink without stint, and the king was hugely pleased that he had caught such a herd. Who acts: herd, king. 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 50

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He got good feeding this night, meat and drink without stint, and the king was hugely pleased that he had caught such a herd.

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**Who acts:** herd, king · **What happens:** get, be, catch · **To what, where:** good feeding, herd

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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 (herd, king), 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:pg7885:21:50
# text = He got good feeding this night, meat and drink without stint, and the king was hugely pleased that he had caught such a herd.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	stint	stint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	hugely	hugely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
24	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | herd | good feeding |  |  | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeding=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | hugely, pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive |  | herd |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary herd=Theme |

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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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