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title: And all at church, from high to low, had their mouths open, gazing a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And all at church, from high to low, had their mouths open, gazing at her, and no man was looking at us." Who acts: all, man. 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 48

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And all at church, from high to low, had their mouths open, gazing at her, and no man was looking at us."

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**Who acts:** all, man · **What happens:** have, gaze, look · **To what, where:** mouths

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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 (all, man), 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:pg7885:23:48
# text = And all at church, from high to low, had their mouths open, gazing at her, and no man was looking at us."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | all | robes's mouths |  |  |  | open *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at satin | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past · progressive | no man |  |  |  |  | at us | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at we=Theme |

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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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