--- title: The prince and she sent the cowboy to school, and trained him up as… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The prince and she sent the cowboy to school, and trained him up as one of their own children, and said: "If the little girl that is born to us now lives, no other man in the world will get her but him." Who acts: child, little girl, other man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, little girl, other man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:23:163 # text = The prince and she sent the cowboy to school, and trained him up as one of their own children, and said: "If the little girl that is born to us now lives, no other man in the world will get her but him." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cowboy cowboy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 trained train VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 If if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 36 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 38 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 40 det _ _ 39 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 46 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 but but CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | child | the prince | | school | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cowboy=Theme to school=Destination | | 2 | **train up** | past | child *not said here* | cowboy | | | | as one of princes's own children | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as one=Attribute | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | child *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **bear** *in a quote* | present · passive | | the little girl | us | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **live** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the little girl | | | | now | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **get** *in a quote* | future | no other man in the world | child | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/162/) - next →: [sentence 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/164/) - ↑ back to [Fair, Brown, and Trembling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/)