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title: The mare stood there before the door, and a bird sitting between her… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The mare stood there before the door, and a bird sitting between her ears, which began to sing as soon as Trembling was in the saddle, and never stopped till she came home from the church. Who acts: mare, bird, ears, Trembling. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Tr
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 62

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The mare stood there before the door, and a bird sitting between her ears, which began to sing as soon as Trembling was in the saddle, and never stopped till she came home from the church.

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**Who acts:** mare, bird, ears, Trembling · **What happens:** stand, sit, begin, sing, be, not stop · **To what, where:** door, ears, saddle, church

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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 (mare, bird, ears, Trembling), 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:pg7885:23:62
# text = The mare stood there before the door, and a bird sitting between her ears, which began to sing as soon as Trembling was in the saddle, and never stopped till she came home from the church.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	Trembling	Trembling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
33	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
36	home	home	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the mare |  |  | the door; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before door=Location |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | a bird |  |  | bird's ears |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between ear=Location |
| 3 | **begin** | past | bird's ears |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | bird's ears *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | Trembling |  |  | the saddle |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **stop** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **come** | past | mare |  |  | the church |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from church=Initial\_Location |

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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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