--- title: He accordingly pulled up the fir-tree, as I said before, and having… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He accordingly pulled up the fir-tree, as I said before, and having snedded it into a walking-stick, set out on his travels to see his darling Oonagh on the top of Knockmany, by the way. Who acts: Cucullin, I. 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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 (Cucullin, I), 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:pg7885:22:13 # text = He accordingly pulled up the fir-tree, as I said before, and having snedded it into a walking-stick, set out on his travels to see his darling Oonagh on the top of Knockmany, by the way. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 accordingly accordingly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 fir fir NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 before before ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 reparandum _ _ 17 snedded snedd VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 walking walking NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 on on SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 darling darling ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 Oonagh Oonagh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Knockmany Knockmany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull up** | past | Cucullin | the fir tree | | | | accordingly *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I | | | | | before *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | gerund | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **snedd** | past | Cucullin *not said here* | tree | | a walking stick | | | tree rules | | 5 | **set out** | participle | | a walking stick *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **travel** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **see** | to-infinitive | | Cucullin's darling Oonagh | | the top of Knockmany | | by the way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oonagh=Stimulus | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/22/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/22/14/) - ↑ back to [A Legend of Knockmany](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/22/)