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title: She accordingly brought him in, and placing half-a-dozen of the cake… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She accordingly brought him in, and placing half-a-dozen of the cakes we spoke of before him, together with a can or two of butter, a side of boiled bacon, and a stack of cabbage, she desired him to help himself--for this, be it known, was long before the invention of potatoes. Who acts: quarter, we
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 89

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She accordingly brought him in, and placing half-a-dozen of the cakes we spoke of before him, together with a can or two of butter, a side of boiled bacon, and a stack of cabbage, she desired him to help himself--for this, be it known, was long before the invention of potatoes.

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**Who acts:** quarter, we · **What happens:** bring, place, dozen, speak, boil, desire · **To what, where:** Cucullin, cakes, half · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (quarter, we), 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:pg7885:22:89
# text = She accordingly brought him in, and placing half-a-dozen of the cakes we spoke of before him, together with a can or two of butter, a side of boiled bacon, and a stack of cabbage, she desired him to help himself--for this, be it known, was long before the invention of potatoes.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	placing	place	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	nsubj	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	dozen	dozen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	bacon	bacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	stack	stack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
49	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	aux:pass	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
59	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	62	advmod	_	_
60	before	before	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | quarter |  | Cucullin |  |  | accordingly, together *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 2 | **place** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dozen** |  |  |  |  |  |  | of the cakes | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | we | the cakes *not said here* |  |  |  | of Cucullin | tree rules |
| 5 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **desire** | past | quarter | Cucullin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | quarter *not said here* | Cucullin |  |  |  | for this | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **know** | infinitive · passive |  | half |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 9 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | before the invention | of potatoes; long *property* | tree rules |

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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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