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title: The whale came and cast Trembling on shore again. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The whale came and cast Trembling on shore again. Who acts: whale. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 144

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The whale came and cast Trembling on shore again.

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**Who acts:** whale · **What happens:** come, cast, tremble · **To what, where:** shore

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whale), 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:pg7885:23:144
# text = The whale came and cast Trembling on shore again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the whale |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cast** | past | the whale *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tremble** | gerund | the whale *not said here* |  |  | shore | again |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |

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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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