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title: Well, it so happened that Fin and his men were all working at the Ca… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, it so happened that Fin and his men were all working at the Causeway, in order to make a bridge across to Scotland; when Fin, who was very fond of his wife Oonagh, took it into his head that he would go home and see how the poor woman got on in his absence. Who acts: it, Fin, Clear, poor woman
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 4

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Well, it so happened that Fin and his men were all working at the Causeway, in order to make a bridge across to Scotland; when Fin, who was very fond of his wife Oonagh, took it into his head that he would go home and see how the poor woman got on in his absence.

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**Who acts:** it, Fin, Clear, poor woman · **What happens:** happen, work, make, be, take, go · **To what, where:** bridge, head, absence

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Fin, Clear, poor woman), 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:pg7885:22:4
# text = Well, it so happened that Fin and his men were all working at the Causeway, in order to make a bridge across to Scotland; when Fin, who was very fond of his wife Oonagh, took it into his head that he would go home and see how the poor woman got on in his absence.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	Fin	Fin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Causeway	Causeway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	across	across	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
29	Fin	Fin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	very	very	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
40	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
49	home	home	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	conj	_	_
52	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	56	advmod	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
56	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	_
57	on	on	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | past · progressive | Fin and Clear's men |  |  |  |  | in order; at the Causeway; all *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at causeway=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Fin and Clear's men *not said here* | a bridge |  |  |  | across *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bridge=Product |
| 4 | **is** | past | Fin |  |  |  |  | of Clear's wife; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | past | Fin | bridge |  | Clear's head |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination |
| 6 | **go** | would | Clear |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **see** | infinitive | Clear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **get on** | past | the poor woman |  |  | Clear's absence |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **absent** |  | Clear |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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