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title: The son of the king of Emania forgot all about the eldest sister, an… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The son of the king of Emania forgot all about the eldest sister, and remained outside the church, so as to catch the strange lady before she could hurry away. Who acts: son, sister. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 64

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The son of the king of Emania forgot all about the eldest sister, and remained outside the church, so as to catch the strange lady before she could hurry away.

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**Who acts:** son, sister · **What happens:** forget, remain, catch, hurry away · **To what, where:** church, strange lady

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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 (son, sister), 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:pg7885:23:64
# text = The son of the king of Emania forgot all about the eldest sister, and remained outside the church, so as to catch the strange lady before she could hurry away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Emania	Emania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | the son of the king of Emania |  |  |  |  | about the eldest sister | tree rules |
| 2 | **remain** | participle | the son of the king of Emania *not said here* |  |  | the church |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside church=Location |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | the son of the king of Emania *not said here* | the strange lady |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme |
| 4 | **hurry away** | could | sister |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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