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title: That Sunday, the people were more astonished than ever, and gazed at… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That Sunday, the people were more astonished than ever, and gazed at her more than the first time; and all they were thinking of was to know who she was. Who acts: Sunday, all, thinking, henwife. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, with its dependency tre
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 41

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That Sunday, the people were more astonished than ever, and gazed at her more than the first time; and all they were thinking of was to know who she was.

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**Who acts:** Sunday, all, thinking, henwife · **What happens:** be, gaze, think, know · **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 (Sunday, all, thinking, henwife), 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:pg7885:23:41
# text = That Sunday, the people were more astonished than ever, and gazed at her more than the first time; and all they were thinking of was to know who she was.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	obl	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	csubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	ccomp	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | that Sunday |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gaze** | past | that Sunday *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at henwife's more | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at more=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** | past | thinking |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | past | henwife |  |  |  |  |  | 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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