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title: That minute Trembling was able to speak, and went home with her husb… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That minute Trembling was able to speak, and went home with her husband, who sent word to her father what the eldest sister had done. Who acts: minute Trembling, husband, eldest sister. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 158

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That minute Trembling was able to speak, and went home with her husband, who sent word to her father what the eldest sister had done.

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**Who acts:** minute Trembling, husband, eldest sister · **What happens:** be, speak, go, send, do · **To what, where:** word, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (minute Trembling, husband, eldest sister), 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:pg7885:23:158
# text = That minute Trembling was able to speak, and went home with her husband, who sent word to her father what the eldest sister had done.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | that minute Trembling |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | that minute Trembling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | that minute Trembling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with whale's husband; home *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with husband=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **send** | past | whale's husband | word | whale's father |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to father=Destination |
| 5 | **do** | past · perfect | the eldest sister | whale's father |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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