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description: He followed herding in this way for a time; but one night after he came home, instead of getting "All hail" and "Good luck" from the dairymaid, all were at crying and woe. Who acts: thing, all. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 77

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He followed herding in this way for a time; but one night after he came home, instead of getting "All hail" and "Good luck" from the dairymaid, all were at crying and woe.

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**Who acts:** thing, all · **What happens:** follow, herd, come, get, cry · **To what, where:** way, hail, dairymaid

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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 (thing, all), 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:pg7885:21:77
# text = He followed herding in this way for a time; but one night after he came home, instead of getting "All hail" and "Good luck" from the dairymaid, all were at crying and woe.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	herding	herd	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	dairymaid	dairymaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **herd** | gerund | thing *not said here* |  |  | this way | time |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | thing |  |  |  | night | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | gerund | thing *not said here* | all hail and Good luck |  | the dairymaid |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hail=Theme from dairymaid=Source |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · progressive | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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