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title: Right or left--backward or forward--where to go he could form no gue… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Right or left--backward or forward--where to go he could form no guess whatsoever. Who acts: chance. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 43

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Right or left--backward or forward--where to go he could form no guess whatsoever.

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**Who acts:** chance · **What happens:** leave, go, form · **To what, where:** guess

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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 (chance), 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:pg7885:22:43
# text = Right or left--backward or forward--where to go he could form no guess whatsoever.
1	Right	right	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	backward	backward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	guess	guess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | backward, right *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **form** | could | chance | no guess |  |  |  | whatsoever *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location guess=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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