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title: Oonagh then drew the nine woollen threads of different colours, whic… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Oonagh then drew the nine woollen threads of different colours, which she always did to find out the best way of succeeding in anything of importance she went about. Who acts: Oonagh, wife, best way. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany, with its dependency tree
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 54

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Oonagh then drew the nine woollen threads of different colours, which she always did to find out the best way of succeeding in anything of importance she went about.

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**Who acts:** Oonagh, wife, best way · **What happens:** draw, find out, succeed, go about · **To what, where:** nine woollen threads, different colours, anything

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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 (Oonagh, wife, best way), 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:pg7885:22:54
# text = Oonagh then drew the nine woollen threads of different colours, which she always did to find out the best way of succeeding in anything of importance she went about.
1	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	woollen	woollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	succeeding	succeed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | Oonagh | the nine woollen threads of different colours |  |  | then |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme |
| 2 | **find out** | past · do-support | wife | different colours |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **succeed** | gerund | the best way *not said here* |  |  | anything |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in anything=Eventuality |
| 4 | **go about** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: 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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