--- title: Everything happened as the sea-maiden said, and he himself got plent… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Everything happened as the sea-maiden said, and he himself got plenty of fish; but when the end of the twenty years was nearing, the old man was growing more and more sorrowful and heavy hearted, while he counted each day as it came. Who acts: Everything, sea maiden, maiden, end. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, sea maiden, maiden, end), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:21:8 # text = Everything happened as the sea-maiden said, and he himself got plenty of fish; but when the end of the twenty years was nearing, the old man was growing more and more sorrowful and heavy hearted, while he counted each day as it came. 1 Everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 14 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 nearing near VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 34 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 37 sorrowful sorrowful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 advcl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ _ 40 hearted heart VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 while while SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 counted count VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 45 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 46 det _ _ 46 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 as as SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | Everything | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the sea maiden | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **get** | past | maiden | plenty of fish | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plenty=Stimulus | | 4 | **near** | past · progressive | the end of the twenty years | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **grow** | past · progressive | the old man | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **heart** | participle | the old man *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **count** | past | man | | | | day | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **come** | past | end | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/9/) - ↑ back to [The Sea-maiden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/)