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title: They left Trembling at home to work in the kitchen, and told her to… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They left Trembling at home to work in the kitchen, and told her to be sure and have dinner ready when they came back. Who acts: rest. 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 52

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They left Trembling at home to work in the kitchen, and told her to be sure and have dinner ready when they came back.

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**Who acts:** rest · **What happens:** leave, tremble, work, tell, be, have · **To what, where:** home, Fair, dinner · **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 (rest), 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:pg7885:23:52
# text = They left Trembling at home to work in the kitchen, and told her to be sure and have dinner ready when they came back.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | rest |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tremble** | gerund | rest *not said here* |  |  | home |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the kitchen | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | rest *not said here* |  | Fair |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | present |  | dinner |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
| 7 | **come back** | past | rest |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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